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Is there a page here for that TV show Absolutely Fabulous?

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[edit] Simpsons Link

Could an admin please change the link of "Simpsons" to "The Simpsons" so people won't have to go through the redirect?- JustPhil 18:06, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I see your point, but how about linking to The Simpsons (disambiguation) instead? That would also be indirect, but the main article is so long that with a dial-up modem there is time for a trip to Moe's while the page loads. ~ Ningauble 18:45, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
I just converted the link to The Simpsons. ~ Kalki 18:53, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting and design of the Main Page

While looking at the Main Page, I noticed only the "In other languages" section uses endashes (–), while the other sections uses hyphens (-). Why is that? All pages, especially the Main Page, should be even. I think either they should all be endashes, or they should all be changed to bullets (•).

Honestly, I'm not very fond of the current look and design of the Main Page. Looks rather drab and boring. A revamp of it would be nice. It would probably attract more readers to visit our project more often and more contributers appearing. The Main Page is probably the most important page of the project. Shouldn't it look more attractive, yet, still contain important and useful information of Wikiquote?

Thoughts would be appreciated. — RyanCross (talk) 07:20, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

If we do decide we need a new Main Page design, I quickly gathered up this as a start. We can work our way from there. — RyanCross (talk) 08:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Main page image

I realize that the quote of the day is talking about the "real superman." Why, then, if our goal is neutrality and not advocacy, does the main page feature a picture of Barack Obama standing next to a statue of Superman? ~ S0CO(talk|contribs) 16:53, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

That's a fair point - I hadn't even looked at it very closely, but you are right that this is a pretty blatant point of view that is being shown. Supporter of Obama or not, I would think that most would agree that we should instead have an image just of Superman in this case. ~ UDScott 17:09, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
I've updated the image to one of the few Free Use images we have of the character. EVula // talk // ☯ // 17:13, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New pages

I think the Main Page should have a box/subsection for newly created pages, similar to wikisource:Template:New texts at Wikisource or w:Template:Did you know at Wikipedia. Thoughts? Cirt (talk) 16:52, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

New pages is currently the first subsection under Selected Pages, but it does not get updated very frequently. Do you think it should be displayed more prominently or handled differently? ~ Ningauble 17:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
Heh, I had not spotted that. I think it should have its own box, on the same prominence as Selected Pages. Cirt (talk) 17:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] In other languages

I think this subsection on the Main Page is a duplicate to the sidebar at bottom left, and should be removed. Cirt (talk) 03:44, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind, I see en.wikipedia has a similar section on its w:Main Page - but it's at the bottom there, not squished off to the side. Cirt (talk) 03:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
I moved it down to {{Wikiquotelang}}, which is full-protected. Cirt (talk) 04:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Main page header

I moved the header stuff into {{Main page header}} (full protected), and did some reformatting. Feel free to tweak it. :) Cirt (talk) 04:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Main Page Selected pages

{{Main Page Selected pages}} (full protected), reformatted a tad with bullet-points instead of dashes, left-aligned. Cirt (talk) 04:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Reformatting

Did some reformatting [1] of the Main Page, makes the coding simpler and much easier to adjust things in the future. Cirt (talk) 05:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New pages

Added {{New pages}} Cirt (talk) 05:37, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Main categories

Added {{Main categories}}, and now it looks like the various boxes balance perfectly on the Main Page. :) Cirt (talk) 06:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I do like the work being done on the main page. I had played around with some ideas months ago, which I might dig up, but one thing I think might be an improvement would be to use shades of blue, such as are in the logo for the page sections. I will try to find my old work on my own ideas within the next day or two. Thanks for finally attending to this subject — I never really was very much inclined to bother with it myself, though I knew it needed improvement. ~ Kalki 22:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the help. A few sections above this, I asked what people thought of User:RyanCross/Sandbox, but nobody responded. Cirt, maybe the sandbox can give you several ideas. What do you guys think? — RyanCross (talk) 06:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
The work going on now is far more advanced than anything I attempted to develop, but I did find some files with last year's work, largely based on User:Phaedriel's design, and posted it at User:Kalki/MainPageTest just to exhibit some color schemes I was trying to develop. It obviously needed much more work, but I was thinking of using all blues to match the WQ logo, with the QOTD in white or light blue upon some sort of darker blue background. ~ Kalki 09:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC) — I think the image in the corner was just a vestige of Phaedriel's original design, which I had begun working from, as are some of the other sections. I don't think I actually intended to keep that section as a place for an image. I only spent a very little time on the matter, and knew it would be tedious for me to do all the work I had in mind — and thus found many other things to do, and ended up never getting back to it. ~ Kalki 09:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Heh, I actually did incorporate a bit from User:RyanCross/Sandbox when doing the tweaking - basically I tried to keep the overall color scheme pretty much the same so as not to rock the boat too much. Cirt (talk) 11:40, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

One concern: It says, "Or go to the Log in page to create a user page." It sounds like we're hosting some kind of myspace website as the line encourages others to only create a userpage... well, we are not supposed to do that. Maybe changing it to, "Or go to the Log in page to start contributing to Wikiquote," or something like that. Thoughts? — RyanCross (talk) 23:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

That was actually the prior text that was already there - I had not changed that at all. Your suggested change sounds good to me. Cirt (talk) 23:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I guess I never really read the Main Page in a while. :-) I'll change it now. — RyanCross (talk) 23:06, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
You'd now have to make the changes to the text portion at {{Main page header}}, not the Main Page itself. :P Cirt (talk) 23:08, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I realized that when I couldn't find the text on the actual Main Page. Figured it would be on that template. — RyanCross (talk) 23:10, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
Looks good. Cirt (talk) 23:13, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I reworked {{Main categories}}. I wanted to take out Category:Media as useless (I nominated it for deletion), but that left the box too light so I added more stuff. It is still mostly redundant with {{Categorybrowsebar}} in the header. Somebody holler if the three column layout doesn't work with common browsers or displays!
I also have some ideas for {{Main page header}} that I will offer for discussion when I finish fleshing out some samples. ~ Ningauble 18:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

The changes to {{Main categories}} look good. Cirt (talk) 18:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Fight Club link

The link under "Films" should go to Fight Club (film). I can't change it myself because I'm not an admin.--71.34.37.155 22:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The link has now been corrected. ~ Kalki 23:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Quote of the Day

Though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute.

I would like my qoute to be Qoute of the Day.


Plesure is root of the Highest Good. From this root Love can grow. Plesure, apon plesaure, apon plesure, for me and for all others.

-User:Gjeremy Wikipedia

[edit] Selected Pages

I think Carl Sagan should be added in the people section - he's quoted as often as the other people mentioned. 86.50.67.25 12:09, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] mp

it looks boring —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 98.204.36.155 (talk)

Got any suggestions for making it more appealing? ~ Ningauble 18:17, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Quote of the Day

There is no quote of the day...? Renaissancee 00:16, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

It has now been updated. ~ Kalki 00:43, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WIKIQUOTE IN BENGALI

HELLO I, ABU SAYEED AHMED WANT TO START WIKIQUOTE IN BENGALI.CAN ANYONE HELP ME?~User:Mzsabusayeed

You might want to enquire at meta:Requests for new languages/Wikiquote Bengali. ~ Ningauble 17:01, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] quote from indian saints

"Expension is life,contraction is death."

                       Swami Vivekanand
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