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I have redesigned the articles home page now to be more like wikipedia's homepage (I assume that since they are the most popular wiki on the planet, they are doing something right with their homepage, so have liberally borrowed ideas from them!) As always, I would be interested to hear ideas and opinions on the changes from anyone. Next stop, the army profiles home page.

I like what you did with the Articles page. It will take some
time for me to get used to deciphering it. How often did
you want to rotate featured articles? I was thinking we
could alternate between updating different boxes, or did
you want something more like Black Gobbo with the
weekly/biweekly/whatever it is schedule and just redo
everything?

I was thinking every week or so, or whenever we add an especially great new article. If you or other article mods go to edit it, you will see that there are some comments indicating the places to edit to update the content, so you shouldnt need to worry about the more complex bits of formatting that area there.

Okay, just don't get mad at us when the thing comes out
all wonky.