Portal talk:Current events/Inclusion

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5 may

{{editprotected}} Please add the 5th. -- Cat ^chi? 04:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Already done, it seems. Sandstein 06:19, 5 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Show wikinews only if there are headlines

I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but sometimes wikinews doesn't publish any articles on a paticular day (This happens frequently at about midnight UTC when its a new day, but no one has published anything yet). Perhaps the wikinews template should onlt be shown if not empty. I propose changing the wikinews transclusion to be

 {{#ifeq:{{Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today}}| | |
 {{{!}} style="width:{{{width|100%}}}; margin-bottom:7px; border:2px solid #cedff2; padding:2px; background-color:#f5faff"
 {{!}}- bgcolor="#cedff2" 
 {{!}}align="left" style="font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold; padding:5px"{{!}}{{#time:F j, Y}} [[n:Main Page|Wikinews]] articles 
 {{!}}-
 {{!}}{{{pediapage|{{Portal:Current events/Wikinews/Today}} }}}
 {{!}}}
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(With similiar changes for today-1 and related templates). Thoughts? Bawolff (talk) 03:08, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is only a short period of time when this occurs, I don't see a compelling need to change it. Cirt (talk) 03:11, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yesterday it was empty for 4 hours, and the day before that it was empty for 6 hours. Its not that long a time, but its not insignificant either. Bawolff (talk) 13:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes the other one, the one filled on Wikipedia, is empty as well, for a brief period of time. Cirt (talk) 13:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikinews stories seem to be off by a day, i.e. stories published on the 13th are showing up in a box for the 14th. the wub "?!" 00:21, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We've been addressing this in a thread at the water cooler technical page at Wikinews, but I thought it had been fixed. Cirt (talk) 04:19, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please copy from Portal:Current events/Inclusion/sandbox. The switch to new day-by-day templates has added extra white space between the boxes. The sandbox fixes this by losing the blank lines. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:52, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Done by Mr. Stradivarius -- John of Reading (talk) 06:02, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Adapting to mobile view: replacing subbullet-points with arrows

Please take a look at the page on your mobile phone.

Subbullet points currently cause the text to move to the right so that it's barely readable on small screens, with only very little space for the text.

Example:

COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in India
  - Content

I propose to replace all subbullet points with arrows, if possible by Oct. 1, like so (or similar):

COVID-19 pandemic → COVID-19 pandemic in India
- Content

or:

COVID-19 pandemic → COVID-19 pandemic in Europe → COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom → COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland
- Content

--Prototyperspective (talk) 19:48, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is a problem with the above suggested solution. Further discussion here. --Prototyperspective (talk) 09:54, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest that headings be used instead. KaraLG84 (talk) 17:30, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Odd, sexist phrasing

"The first trial for rape during the war in Ukraine is set to begin in absentia against a 32-year-old Russian soldier accused of murdering a civilian and repeatedly raping his wife during the offensive in Kyiv. (Reuters)" Wouldn't this be better as "accused of murdering one civilian and repeatedly raping another"? The implication of the current version is that the wife is not a civilian, for one thing. IAmNitpicking (talk) 19:32, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wives aren't and can't be civilians? 142.183.119.218 (talk) 00:19, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]