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* ... that Latvian-Soviet artist [[Karlis Johansons]] exhibited a skeletal [[tensegrity]] form of the '''[[Schönhardt polyhedron]]''' seven years before [[Erich Schönhardt]]'s 1928 paper on its mathematics?
* ... that the '''[[Zunda Towers]]''' in [[Riga]], Latvia, changed their name from "Z-Towers" to avoid being associated with [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Russia's invasion of Ukraine]]?
:The leaders of [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], and [[Estonia]] call on the [[European Union]] to construct a [[Euro|€]]2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and [[Russia]] and [[Belarus]] to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats. [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-baltics-call-eu-defence-line-border-with-russia-belarus-2024-06-26/ (Reuters)]
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Latest comment: 18 years ago11 comments2 people in discussion
Well, there's the first try at cleaning up. After working up the master portal page with endless <div>s and CSS style definitions, it was clear that tables would be clearer and simpler--and Wiki supports them.
I thought the Popular Front article looked interesting, so I featured that, contributed one of my own pictures to Wikipedia (now freely licensed to all), and pulled together the did you know historical info and some current news items. Hopefully this is a start, adding to Peteris Cedrins' successful efforts to get this project going. Peters08:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
P.S. Stuck the updated inserted dates in the individual files... don't need to muck with the main page unless adding a section or adding a permanent link reference in a box-bottom section Peters08:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the fine work! A very minor, er, aesthetic suggestion -- the color chosen for the boxes causes the flag to blend into the background... I would suggest another color (dark gray?).
Your choice of the Popular Front article is very timely (though I think the article needs some editing and will try to get to that), since we are now marking the fifteenth anniversary of the barricades, and that brought an idea to mind -- how about a box for important dates in Latvian history in the current month, or something like that? --Pēteris Cedriņš21:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
As a computer semi-illiterate, I cannot figure out how to link to categories -- the Catgory:Latvia link (in the things to do) is now broken... help?! --Pēteris Cedriņš12:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
For external links that include the http... [link-spec blank-char whatever words you want to appear with no OR bar anywhere]
I wasn't thrilled with Romanr's additions to "did you know" and current Latvia life, it seems we want something more positive than a tally of Latvia's inhabitants leaving to pick mushrooms, et al. That said, I did some hunting and did not find anything regarding the EU's specific impact on Latvia. I decided to take the EU statistics and start another section, be it positive or negative, of facts related to Latvia, post EU membership. Peters02:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Seems the "extra" white border around thumbnails only happens with the default skin. More research than I'm prepared to do! Peters03:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I have a lot of stuff going on, that said, I've adapted some tools to be able to keep the news items up to date more frequently. Still need some help in featured articles... perhaps we can propose a list and then update every couple of weeks. --Pēters J. Vecrumba06:47, 30 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
How about simply noting articles that suit for the prupose here ? Kārlis Ulmanis seems well written. However important dates for "Latvia Dates" section probably should be gethered for whole year. I think I could try to help to keep this up to date (at least I have a bit of time now)---- Xil/talk22:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
I think it would be better if this portal had funfacts in "did you know" section as most such sections do - besides the fact that dry statistic is boring, think what message it gives: Before the war Latvia was a great country, now it's also ought to be great, but for some reason even Latvians don't want to live there. ---- Xil/talk18:45, 2 March 2007 (UTC)Reply
Good point the article indeed should clarify that it is the same thing. Information on these fights is obscure, all I realy now is that Russians sweeped woods (not sure if that realy is the right name of the thing - it involves nummber of soldiers walking close to each other trough area and searching for guerrillas) and, I supose, killed of the forest brothers they encountered. As Bagramyan commanded Baltic Military District until 1954, I supose, all Soviet army did at the time was his activities in Latvia. My encyclopedia gives very short byographical data and there are only 8 Google results in latvian about him, from what I see in google (some orders signed by him latest dated 1950) he seems to be more preoccupied with accommodation of military and clearing of mines and other such ammunition---- Xil/talk14:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments1 person in discussion
I'm going to make queue which will update portal automaticly - obviously no one has time, desire or whatever to regulary do it manualy. At the moment I've allready have made queue of featured pictures for first 24 weeks of the year (all pictures are either from commons or from previous updates, by the way). Just so you know in which direction to throw rocks if you have troubles with this ---- Xil/talk01:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
I queued pictures to update weekly and previous contents of "Latvia dates" section to update monthly. The rest of months (previous updates are for four months - January, March, May and October) obviously need to be filled in and I think Featured articles also should be queued - suggestions (for contents) are welcomed ---- Xil/talk15:06, 20 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
I made Featured articles to update monthly and filled queue until August with articles that have appeared on Main page as DYK---- Xil/talk18:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
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