Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Deleteing WIGO NAV/reply (36)

And agreed there too. What I want to see happen with the main page is for it to become a launching pad for the most current event. Look at any major website that would do what we do and what you see on the main page isn't a massive rambling introduction but a headlong charge into the most recent article. As it stands now it's not particularly useful for much - it's not updated, it's not maintained, it's just there and forgotten about. But you've seen the problems with merely moving an icon around, the odds of changing it that dramatically are, well, "slim" would be optimistic.

What we need are a stream of articles on the main page that are updated like blog entries. Let's just take the Skepchick website as a case study because I have it open. There's no rambling "what we're about", or some fire-and-forget templates that randomly change. It's there for people who frequent the place to use it. It has a mix of popular and recent content on it. Then main page of Wikipedia it has a featured article altered daily, not randomly, everything else is news and current, all updated regularly. What I would really like is a transclusion of the most recent WIGO entries, but that would be a pain in the arse and require quite an overhaul to execute.