Talk:Welcome to MEpedia

Tutorial on Portal pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Portals

Suggestion:
The main page is attractively laid out, and appealing to a viewer wanting to browse through major topics. However, I’m not sure there should be a link to the ‘Contents’ page. My impression of the contents page is that it is primarily for contributors, not the viewing public. I don’t see a need for a public-facing Contents page when we already have a great Main page such as this one. Perhaps we could move the ‘Contents’ link to the ‘Contribute’ page instead?

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Pyrrhus (talk) 00:32, 26 January 2019 (EST)

I have now added a link to the Contents and Condensed Contents pages from the Contribute page, so contributors will see them.

Pyrrhus (talk) 01:15, 17 February 2019 (EST)

Instead of removing the 'Contents' link from the main page, perhaps we can simply have it link to the page Special:Categories, which may allow the public to browse by a list of categories? Probably not, as the categories are also currently too messy to be exposed to the public.

Pyrrhus (talk) 21:48, 17 February 2019 (EST)

I would prefer the Contents link to stay - if you know roughly what you want or want to browse through what's available that is the best place to go. notjusttired (talk) 18:17, 26 February 2019 (EST)

Thanks so much for the feedback, notjusttired! Pyrrhus (talk) 20:53, 26 February 2019 (EST)

Treatments Portal
Can the main outline page(s) be added for this plus the link to them? I know how to complete some of the content like Featured pictures and Featured articles but there is no skeleton there.

I think a link to clinical trials from here might be helpful too.

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notjusttired (talk) 18:17, 26 February 2019 (EST)

Clarify Search buttons
It’s not clear to a casual user what the difference is between “Try exact match” and “Search full text”. Heck, it’s not even clear to me. Rephrase? Pyrrhus (talk) 19:58, 28 February 2019 (EST)

Links on lefthand sidebar
The lefthand sidebar of the main page contains links for the public and links for contributors. Perhaps the links for the public should be on top, above the “Donate” button, and the links for contributors should be below the “Donate” button, labelled “Tools for editors”? The top links for the public would include “Main page”, “Random page”, “Printable version”, and “Permanent link”. The bottom links for contributors would include everything else: “Recent changes”, “What links here”, “Related changes”, “Upload file”, “Special pages”, “Page information”, and finally “Help”. It might also make sense to move the “Contents” link from the middle of the page to the left sidebar, under “Tools for contributors”? Thoughts? Pyrrhus (talk) 20:20, 28 February 2019 (EST)