Wikipedia talk:About

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Simple.

Simple thing about Wikipedia.

It is a great wiki/site. Its a wiki/site where people can share their knowledge with other people.

Agree Mtemar (talk) 10:54, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Hey I think so too and thank you for that Kat strout (talk) 16:52, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

A misspelled word

This: "non-specialists" is misspelled. The word is "nonspecialists". Please correct this spelling.
In common nouns and common adjectives, the prefix "non" is never hyphenated onto anything, and we can find 100 correct examples. Here are a few: nonbeliever, nonconductor, nonfunctional, nongermaine, nonhuman, nonliving, nonmaterial, nonmetal, nonoptimal, nonparticipant, nonrural, nonsense, and nonverbal. 98.67.111.72 (talk) 00:13, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Done - WP:HYPHEN seems to indicate that for this usage, this is correct, also wikt:nonspecialist. It doesn't seem to be one of the exceptions listed at WP:HYPHEN. Thank you. Begoon ^talk 02:43, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

for reference: - see also Wikipedia talk:About/New and anonymous editors#A misspelled word.

Ok Ayoyonetizen (talk) 21:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Reader feedback

It seems that a majority of people clicking on the link "About Wikipedia" are actually looking for contact information (phone # or e-mail), where to donate and about Jimbo Wales. Raykyogrou0 (Talk) 12:03, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Disclaimers link

Per a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/RFC on medical disclaimer, I would like to suggest adding a Disclaimers link at the end of the navigation bar at the top of the About page. It would add very little clutter and would give our disclaimers greater visibility.--agr (talk) 15:21, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

What I am suggesting requires changing a template which may be overkill. Instead I'm adding a mention to the end of the intro.--agr (talk) 12:34, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Open new browser tab for "discussion" ("talk")

When switching to "discussion" ("talk" for English readers, I guess), why not automatically open a new tab (target = "_blank" type)? I know that the reader can do that her- or himself with Ctrl-click, but as she usually thinks only later that she wants to refer to a detail in the main text, and she hadn’t been aware that the discussion will replace the main entry, she didn’t think about opening a new tab by Ctrl right away, etc. – Your are welcome to remove this entry here after reading. Fritz Jörn (talk) 05:44, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

To editor Fritz Jörn: You could open a new Phabricator ticket if you like; however, users will quickly learn that a right-click on the "Talk" or "Discussion" link gives the option to open in a new tab. Thank you very much for your suggestion!  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  19:02, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Rightly. That may be a better idea, Paine. What I really would like: To be able to reference deeply into a referenced text and pre-scrolling to the proper location there, eg having the “receiving” browser automatically searching for some keywords I selected. Thus you could pinpoint deeply into a source text, even if it does not have name or div entry points. But I doubt that HTML offers that. – Fritz Jörn (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:23, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

To editor Fritz Jörn: yes, that would be nice, but you're probably right about the HTML. The closest thing for me would be {{search link}} or just using my browser's "Find on this page" option in the "Edit" menu. Best to you!  Paine Ellsworth  ^put'r there  15:51, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Survey

Hey all,

I'm looking into doing some research about the things that users seek out help for. If noone has any objections I'd like to add a brief survey to this page to collect some anonymous data about what people are looking for and how we can help them better. I'd like to add this in the next week or so. Ping me if anyone has any issues with this. Seddon (WMF) (talk) 22:58, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Kinds of Phonetic Alphabets

... is a subject worth studying. RCNesland (talk) 19:03, 24 October 2017 (UTC)