Wikipedia:2008 main page redesign proposal/Gnangarra

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  • Today's featured article is expanded to three articles; at present we have just over 2100 FA that give us about 700 days, or almost 2 years to cycle through current ones including those that have already been on the main page.
  • Featured Picture occupies the whole width, the reason is that pictures have three formoats, Portrait, Landscape, and Panorama. Along with the image, the text and attribution need to all be clearly displayed 50% or 33% result in too many compromises. 66% is possible to enable a Featured list, Sound links though it still impacts on panorama images.
  • section are symmetrical on the horizontal line that keeps the format consistent across various screen widths
  • move focus more towards content both quality and new material with FA and DYK first text sections, then FP. Following this with on this day and in the news which are more trivial links into Wikipedia content.


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Apennine Colossus

The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 metres (36 feet) tall, in the estate of Villa Demidoff (originally Villa di Pratolino) in Vaglia in Tuscany, Italy. A personification of the Apennine Mountains, the colossal figure was created by Giambologna, a Flemish-born Italian sculptor, in the late 1580s. The statue has the appearance of an elderly man crouched at the shore of a lake, squeezing the head of a sea monster through whose open mouth water originally emanated into the pond in front of the statue. The colossus is depicted naked, with stalactites in the thick beard and long hair to show the metamorphosis of man and mountain, blending his body with the surrounding nature. It is made of stone and plaster and the interior houses a series of chambers and caves on three levels. Initially, the back of the statue was protected by a structure resembling a cave, which was demolished around 1690 by the sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini, who built a statue of a dragon to adorn the back of the colossus. The Italian sculptor Rinaldo Barbetti renovated the statue in 1876.

Sculpture credit: Giambologna; photographed by Rhododendrites

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