Talk:Main Page/Archive 1

There was a problem creating new pages earlier today/yesterday depending on your locale.

This seems to be resolved now. --Peter Hitchmough 08:39, 23 October 2006 (CDT)

I would like to discuss the heading "health sciences" on the main page. I clicked it, and was flummoxed. As far as I know, there is no such thing as "Health Science"as described. There is health care- that includes traditional medicine and such, but that's not science. Health Care deserves an article but I am too ignorant to know how to change the heading. I posted my confusion here instead of editing the article and discussing it there because I did not want to inadvertantly add it to CZ (which I maintain would be better called Z for Zendium and still could be the Citizens' Compendium, by the way.) Help! Nancy Sculerati

Just to make you happy :-) I just registered zendium.org (it appears the .com and .net variants are Danish tooth products--that's plausible). Maybe we will go with your variant, eventually anyway...

Presumably there are important enough differences between the topics "health care," a set of practices, and "health sciences" (or "medicine"), an area of study and research, to warrant different articles. Or did you mean to deny that? I mean, I will not gainsay you if you do wish to deny it. The list of topics on the front page is a list of disciplines, and "health care" per se doesn't name a discipline.

--Larry Sanger 16:52, 30 October 2006 (CST) (I signed this way by using four tildes in a row: ~~~~

P.S. Dr. Sculerati, please see medicine as well.

My proposal is to post in help section of the page the most actual info, covering technical problems during initial registration at least to get-off some load from tech team, replying on similar questions.

http://pilot.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Main_Page&diff=100001136&oldid=100001131

What's about necessity of registering user name in form of real "First name Last name" ? It's hard to find this somewhere BEFORE attempt of account registration IMHO. Anatoliy Kostrzhytskyy 05:06, 3 November 2006 (CST)

Thanks for pointing that (the real names requirement) out. I don't know where else we can mention that, except maybe in the invitation letters? It was discussed to death on the forum (and talked about on the mailing list in late September). We formulated the policy to help foster a different sort of community, to help make this all the more real. --ZachPruckowski 12:00, 3 November 2006 (CST)

It is mentioned in the invitation letters, and the statement of fundamental policies too.  :-) --Larry Sanger 13:34, 4 November 2006 (CST)

Dear Colleagues,

I was about to write a short piece about Cultural Policy/Strategy but I realise I cannot do so until I am 'au fait' with the technical side of things. Perhaps Larry it would be helpful if new recruits such as myself are emailed an attachment containing a 'tutorial'? Best wishes, aladin.

P.S. Perhaps this can be emailed - I am not sure how to receive or send messages! aladin

Aladin, I agree that many users need a tutorial, and apparently we do need to increase the priority on that. It's easier for us to put it here on the wiki, however, and e-mail a link. There's no "wiki-internal" mail except "user talk" pages, and many people don't know to look at their user talk pages anyway! --Larry Sanger 13:17, 7 November 2006 (CST)

Dear Larry,

Thanks for this. Surely you should be spending your time elsewhere than responding to 'administrative' queries? I am impressed! I am about to use 4 tildes as you suggest, which is a start for me. aladin Aladin 19:29, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Nonsense. It is impossible to have an open, bottom-up project if the project leader is not willing to work "in the trenches" as much as if not more than others. That's how I got Wikipedia started and CZ will be no different. --Larry Sanger 22:40, 20 November 2006 (CST)

Disciplines

Could I ask someone to rework the "Disciplines" list so that it reflects CZ:Discipline Workgroups? And in general, if you can improve the coherence and usefulness of this landing page, please do. Thanks. --Larry Sanger 22:40, 20 November 2006 (CST)

computer sciences

hi all,

where did the computer science pages vanish into? They seem to have been deleted or declared dead.

thanks for any hints upon their location.

Rob Tito

Hi Rob, the place to ask would be on the talk page of the Computers workgroup page, I guess. But since you ask here: see Category:Computers Workgroup. Does that answer the question? (Where did you find the comp sci articles previously?) --Larry Sanger 12:45, 10 December 2006 (CST)

There used to be a page linked to Computer Sciences and that page contained links to e.g. databases - but a different link then the computers page link. That one - including all the myriads of pages of information seems gone. Why ever it was done remains a mystery to me but since it has been done and probably for some good reasons I merely want to add a layer to reflect the broad territory of computers, science of computers and computer science. regards

Rob Robert Tito

I still don't know what page you mean. Do you mean, perhaps, computer science? All the pages are still there, to my knowledge (I don't think we've started deleting any pages). --Larry Sanger 13:02, 10 December 2006 (CST)

Redesigned main page

If you're reading this, then you're hip enough to know that talk pages are important and so you're also probably mediawiki-savvy. Well then you might be just the person to redesign Main Page. Here is my request: move the current contents of the main page to CZ:Project Home. On a newly-designed main page, use a modest, tasteful amount of color and tables to create a simple front page for CZ. (Hint: en.wikipedia.org ain't simple.) I would still like to see links to the entry articles for the workgroups (not the workgroup homepages; e.g., philosophy, not CZ:Philosophy Workgroup). We may also have a featured article on the front page, a la Wikipedia, but not so prominently placed (i.e., not in the upper left). Think: you're arriving at CZ for the very first time. What's the first thing you want to see? I leave that an open question. One thing you'll want to see, of course, is the start of an explanation of what CZ is, and what makes CZ different from WP. So: a link to a page explaining these things, and the first paragraph or two of that page. --Larry Sanger 13:02, 10 December 2006 (CST)