ESB:Proposals/Main Page Redesign (2014)

	Proposal Archive The following proposal has been discussed and is now marked as resolved. The page has been protected and now serves as an archive. Do not edit this page. Date Resolved: May 26, 2014 Result: Proposal passes.

Introduction

We have had the current design for the main page since June 2013. After some discussion at JCM's recent proposal to redesign the main page, there are several new ideas, and this proposal will list them so that the main page can be redesigned.

Proposal

The redesign of the main page will include keeping the following:

The welcome area, with the logo, buttons, and article/image/edit statistics
Twitter newsfeed
The random article buttons
Polls
Nickelodeon Wikis template

The redesign will include the following changes:

Elimination of the "Wiki Updates" section
"Project Cleanup," "Important notes," and "We need your help." will be merged into one section called "Community Corner" and will implement the use of MediaWiki:Community-corner so that such updates can help notify people. The Community Portal will be linked from this, and the Community Portal will be used as a place to keep links to important pages, policies, and discussions.
Addition of a "User of the Month" section, pending a discussion on the process by which people are nominated.
Addition of an "Article of the Month" section, pending a discussion on the process by which articles are nominated.
SpongeBobia network template - which includes links to SpongeBob Answers and SpongeBob Fanon.

This discussion will end on Monday, May 26, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 13:42, May 19, 2014 (UTC)

Design

Here are designs that will be used as a templates if the proposal passes:

Discussion

Support

Support ---JθξeρhΗαωκ ^{talk • contribs • global contribs • log}
Support - --SpongeyTube ^{Message Wall} My Contributions 13:50

Support - I support but I think that request for ban should also be put in the community corner. AW10 Talk Contribs E-Mail 11:15,5/21/2014
Support - --Spongebob456 ^talk 16:14, May 21, 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

Neutral

Neutral - See below. --^{15:24,5/19/2014 Muchacha ^(W•_C)OVERTIME?!!!}

Comments

I suddenly don't think it would be a good idea to have User of the Month awards. Why?

Well, imagine a user (like 120d), not getting the award, losing to someone else, complaining to everyone here about it, and starting arguments. That wouldn't be good. I'll try to bring up more points in the discussion about how users are nominated. --^{14:11,5/21/2014 Muchacha ^(W•_C)OVERTIME?!!!}

Community decides who will be user of the month and which article will be the article of the month. So, no one can complain. AW10 Talk Contribs E-Mail 19:52,5/21/2014

We can easily have rules in place. Anyone who complains and starts arguements is not worthy of a user of the month award anyway. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 22:44, May 21, 2014 (UTC)