Talk:Main Page development

Serving the needs of non-US investors
The changes proposed in make sense to me and add some clarity for non-North American investors.

The challenge from my perspective is the choice isn't an either/or situation. Many of the items in the Getting started box are core for ALL Bogleheads, i.e. Bogleheads® investment philosophy, Bogleheads® investing start-up kit, Investment policy statement, regardless of their geographic location.

Is there another way to think of the Getting started section that it focuses on the 'strategic part' that is not location sensitive, and then an 'implementation part' that deals with the US specific and non-US specific paths? --Peculiar Investor 13:31, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Right. The dilemma, as ever, is that this page (in common with most others) mixes philosophy with pragmatics. The first of these is location-agnostic, the second is purely US-centric. Up to now, the tack taken has been to fork the main page and then remove, reword, or otherwise internationalise any US specific parts, this being deemed the least disruptive to the current structure of the wiki.


 * LadyGeek proposed perhaps using templates for common parts, and then providing locale-specific pages that draw in those templates. It's probably possible, but it would create some tension over when to adopt this (more than 50% common? 40%?, 75%?) and breaks up a page editing task, perhaps horribly. No easy answer, unfortunately.


 * On the plus side, forking where much of the page remains duplicated hasn't proven to be a large practical problem so far. The pages where this has happened are fairly infrequently changed, and any changes that do occur in the pages forked will likely be around US specific things, perhaps annual changes to US tax numbers of one kind or another, so with no effect on the non-US versions.
 * --TedSwippet 14:00, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Page specific CSS should be moved into TemplateStyles
Going forward the page specific inline CSS should be moved out of the article. Background reasoning and implementation help can be found in MediaWiki's Help:TemplateStyles and Wikipedia's Wikipedia:TemplateStyles. --Peculiar Investor 09:04, 19 April 2021 (EDT)
 * Another useful resource is Small wiki toolkits/Starter kit/Main page customization, which shows how page specific CSS in a separate styles.css file works. --Peculiar Investor 09:11, 19 April 2021 (EDT)
 * I fixed the interwiki links (no comments at this time) --LadyGeek 10:08, 19 April 2021 (EDT)
 * I followed the guidance in Small wiki toolkits/Starter kit/Main page customization and created a template for the content. --LadyGeek 17:22, 19 April 2021 (EDT)

Optimize for mobile devices
This update is intended to optimize the content for mobile devices. Currently, the outline list appears at the top of the page, thereby pushing important content (the "Welcome" section) out of view. Readers will lose interest if they have to scroll down to understand the wiki.

This page, Main page development, and Template:Main page development/styles.css are open to all wiki editors. --LadyGeek 17:22, 19 April 2021 (EDT)