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Just to let you know that the Happy Bday banner pointing to the Shop does not display properly on my Firefox (completely missing the Wikimedia Shop. The Wikimedia Shop is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. part), unless I minimize the size of the text in the page, and I am pretty sure it is not meant to work like this. -- Elitre ( talk) 14:29, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
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There's no good reason to use reduced size text here; it only serves to make it more difficult to read. Could someone remove font-size: 80%;
from the style attribute of the div tag? Also, please remember to increment
MediaWiki:Sitenotice id per
mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice#Dismissing when updating the sitenotice. Thanks.
jcgoble3 (
talk) 18:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am requesting a sitenotice for POTY 2012 Round 2 (Final Round) to run instead of a CentralNotice on this wiki. Picture of the Year is a widely recognized event and we would like to encourage ENWP editors to participate in celebrating Wikimedia's best pictures. The banner would remain visible to logged in editors from Feb 7 2012 to Feb 14 2013. You can view the banner here - the banner would appear in English only. Mono for the POTY 2012 committee at 20:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Currently there are mass-migrations of interwiki data being moved to
WP:Wikidata. These appear in Watchlists as large-scale bot deletions and look like this
[1]. Based on the feedback at
Wikipedia talk:Wikidata#Lack of advanced warning and no decent how-to guide for WP:EN editors and the the Talkpages of the bot operators,
User talk:Addbot#Avril Lavigne -- interwikilink removals, it would appear that most editors on en.wikipedia are utterly unaware of this. Although others disagree, I think there is a case for a sitewide (logged-in) use of {{
sitenotice}}
to give editors a heads up on a such a significant change to the way in which articles work. That said, there still isn't (yet) any decent documentation to point people to, despite the bots going forward at full-steam, and it's happening now. —
Sladen (
talk) 11:28, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
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edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
When doing a live beta, letting people back out is crucial to avoiding discontent, as well as providing a place to post bugs. Neither of these have been done. Indeed, the current attempt doesn't even explain what VisualEditor is. As such, I would suggest the following sitenotice be added immediately.
Wikipedia is happy to announce the live Beta of VisualEditor, a tool that offers a way to edit pages without needing to learn wikimarkup. This has been automatically activated on all accounts. If you need to edit without VisualEditor, you can choose "Edit source" instead of "Edit". For bug reporting, go to Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
To opt out of VisualEditor, simply go to Preferences → Gadgets, scroll down to "Editing", tick the box labelled "Remove VisualEditor from the user interface", then scroll to the bottom and click "Save". You can reactivate it at any time by unticking the box.
I've used a little colour to make sure people see it. I suggest Sitenotice, as whatever hack is being used for the uninformative message literally takes 3 seconds before it appears on the otherwise completely-loaded page. This provides the necessary information, explains what's happening, and tells people where to report bugs, and how to opt out - things that should have been done 15 hours ago.
Thank you. (Crossposted to WP:ANI) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 14:36, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
#mediawiki-visualeditor
, but the answer was much simpler; the intended notice had expired because of |until=2013-06-30
, before deployment had occurred
Old revision of MediaWiki:Watchlist. —
Sladen (
talk) 19:27, 2 July 2013 (UTC)This
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Hi. The notice about the RFC concerning default state of the VisualEditor should be removed until there's a consensus to include it in a site-wide notice for all users. (If such a consensus exists already, please provide a link to it. I checked this talk page and saw nothing.) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:14, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Let's rather have a site notice than a watchlist notice. Watchlist notices are easily overlooked (I always miss them). Having the site notice up for those four or five hours doubled participation in the RfC, leading to about 100 editors leaving an opinion: that was a good thing. Andreas JN 466 14:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
It's "VisualEditor", not "the Visual Editor". Could someone correct this? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:26, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
An editor at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default_State RFC#RFC tag brought up that he's unable to disable the site notice for the Visual Editor RFC. This user surfs with JavaScript disabled.
I tested this with both Firefox (22) and IE (9). When you disable JavaScript the "[hide]" link that's normally to the upper-right of a site-notice is centered and positioned above the notice. However, clicking it has no affect. Under Firefox the HTML sent to me when JavScript is disabled was <div class="mw-dismissable-notice-close">[<a href="#">hide</a>]</div>. That's not going to hide the notice.
I enabled JavaScript, disabled the site-notice (which removed the notice), and then disabled JavaScript. The site notice is visible again.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to turn the site notice back on so that I can view the HTML for a site notice's "hide" link when JavaScript is enabled. I assume there was an onclick or something similar that handled setting the "hide notice" flag using the MediaWiki:Sitenotice id.
Someone suggested the site notice could be disabled via Preferences / Gadgets / "Suppress display of the fundraiser banner." However, The site notice for this RFC is apparently not a "fundraiser banner" and so the preference did not remove the RFC site notice. -- Marc Kupper| talk 21:10, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
#siteNotice { display:none; }
to your .css file
like so.
Killiondude (
talk) 21:30, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
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I would suggest that seven days is probably enough time for having shown a site notice about an RFC to everyone. Perhaps it is about time to take this notice down? Dragons flight ( talk) 16:33, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
{{
sudo}}
assistance. —
Sladen (
talk) 17:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Should we add one, following the examples of Commons, de.wp, es.wp, fr.wn? It Is Me Here t / c 19:17, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Where does one make a request for a notice on an RFC? Any specific procedure? There is a discussion on Wikipedia_talk:MOS#Bird_common_name_capitalisation that might need more eyes. Shyamal ( talk) 02:31, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Should this request for comment re the use of the "Wiki Loves X" campaign title format be advertised here? It is going nowhere at the moment and I suspect very few editors know about it. Helen Online 08:09, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I cannot remove this site notice. I click on the X, and it goes, but when I go to a new page, or refresh, the notice returns. I use Opera. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:42, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, good news! Thanks to FreedomFighterSparrow and Brion, unregistered users can now hide the sitenotice again. Previously, they were forced to see it continuously.
In all cases, please use the sitenotice with care, and keep in mind that occasional visitors see sitenotices on all their visits, if they visit less than once a month or they don't click "dismiss" and save a cookie. Nemo 15:43, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Similar to how SOPA was voted on, I'd like to request this important discussion ( Wikipedia talk:Freedom of Panorama 2015) be put on the sitenotice. This banner would only be shown in Europe. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 20:19, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
As an FYI, I saw this banner in the United States. The discussion permits this banner to be used only in Europe. There is no discussion that authorizes this banner to be displayed to non-European users. -- B ( talk) 22:26, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, we made a request for a consensus for semi-regular site notices for the Wikipedia Library at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikipedia_Library:_Running_a_SiteNotice_for_logged-in_users. Please comment, we would appreciate feedback/support. Cheers, Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 16:44, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
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A couple months ago, I proposed a WP:TWL Site notice for logged in users, which would communicate availability of Wikipedia Library resources ( see Tech Pump and Proposal pump). Both proposals were relatively supportive silences. As I mention in the pump proposals, their are way more accounts/accesses to partner sources available than we have distributed. Also, when we did a similar notice on French, it brought much greater attention to the program, helping French-language users recognize the program's support.
We believe their will be little concern about the notice: the program is only a benefit for editors, might encourage more constructive editing contributions by volunteers, and is highly supported in the community (as we have noticed with the recent coverage/conversation about our EBSCO partnership (see coverage in our recent newsletter). We would love to see this notice run for ~2 weeks to only signed in users, using the Annnotice exclusion of not-signed in readers (who wouldn't fully benefit from these resources), in part we are running it to create visibility to editors that don't regularly sign in and use other community communication venues (and see our semi-regular Watchlist notices).
Here is the proposed banner:
If you are an active editor and have 500 edits and a 6-month-old account on any Wikimedia project you can sign up for resources like JSTOR, Project MUSE, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and Highbeam, among many other academic and popular publishers. If you don't qualify yet, The Wikipedia Library can connect you to other research tools as well: learn more.
Thanks much, The Wikipedia Library Team,
Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 17:04, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
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The 2016 WikiCup begins this week. We'd like to have a site-wide notice, running for the rest of December and all of January, with this text:
The 2016 WikiCup, our yearly site-wide competition dedicated to improving Wikipedia, starts January 1. Sign-ups remain open until February 5.
Christine (Figureskatingfan) (
talk) 05:59, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
A site notice is getting ready to go live, barring any objections. This will be for logged in users only. Please comment at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Why_am_I_seeing_a_.22Welcome.22_message.3F. — xaosflux Talk 23:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
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Please post the following notice (and remember to increment the MediaWiki:Sitenotice id):
-- Pipetricker ( talk) 02:33, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
Would it be worth this year or subsequent years putting up a banner linking to the videos of presentations at wikimania? It might be a way of making it more broadly known the sorts of things that are going on 'behind the scenes' for readers who otherwise don't know how extensive the wikimedia community activities are. Might even inspire people to think about getting involved. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:11, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
This
edit request to
MediaWiki:Sitenotice and
MediaWiki:Anonnotice has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello
There is a read only phase that will happen for your wiki, on Thu 14th November from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC. Please see T234800 for details; in short, it is because of a database decommission.
I suggest you to setup a banner (so as an Anon-notice banner) 30 minutes before the read-only.
It could just say "A maintenance will be performed soon - 14th November from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC" and "You may not be able to save any edits during this time."
In any case, the read-only message will be displayed when the read-only will happen, but have a warning message prior the intervention is needed to warn people.
Thank you, Trizek (WMF) ( talk) 15:50, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Recently for the Main Page with the WP:ITN box we've added a banner for recent coverage and news related to the COVID-19 pandemic which many have found helpful.
From a separate angle, a discussion was raised on Jimbo Wales' page, and he offered his comment related to site-wide messages, [5], which while rejected the original comment, did offer the suggestion that with the current situation around COVID-19 this may be a point to use a Sitenotice to provide helpful links to our pages on it.
Exactly what those links are, I don't know but we could replicate something like the ITN box easily, or offer something differently. -- Masem ( t) 14:05, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
We've given everyone a week to get used to it and given that both sides are claiming silent majorities I'm planning to add the following notice:
Assuming everything still works the way I think it does the notice should only display for logged in users. ©Geni ( talk) 17:09, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
DesktopImprovements_deployment
(now expired) pointed to
Wikipedia:Vector 2022, which has the RFC banner on top. —
xaosflux
Talk 18:15, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Without WMF staff acknowledging this as a possibility this is clearly beyond what community consensus can determine WP:CONEXCEPT.(Point 4)
This is a WMF decision that is solely in their hands and considering the "vibe" around the deployment it seems beyond unlikely for this to go anywhere.(Copied my response to the watchlist request) I had a search through WMF responses at the RFC page and there were not any which acknowledged this as a possibility (5 days later, they only respond to technical help and post progress updates). This shouldn't be advertised more since it is wasting everyones time. Terasail [✉️] 18:30, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
to
MediaWiki:Anonnotice at the same time (
needs to be tested).
Nemo 18:41, 29 January 2023 (UTC)This
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skin may be documented on
MediaWiki.org or
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Just to let you know that the Happy Bday banner pointing to the Shop does not display properly on my Firefox (completely missing the Wikimedia Shop. The Wikimedia Shop is operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. part), unless I minimize the size of the text in the page, and I am pretty sure it is not meant to work like this. -- Elitre ( talk) 14:29, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
There's no good reason to use reduced size text here; it only serves to make it more difficult to read. Could someone remove font-size: 80%;
from the style attribute of the div tag? Also, please remember to increment
MediaWiki:Sitenotice id per
mw:Manual:Interface/Sitenotice#Dismissing when updating the sitenotice. Thanks.
jcgoble3 (
talk) 18:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I am requesting a sitenotice for POTY 2012 Round 2 (Final Round) to run instead of a CentralNotice on this wiki. Picture of the Year is a widely recognized event and we would like to encourage ENWP editors to participate in celebrating Wikimedia's best pictures. The banner would remain visible to logged in editors from Feb 7 2012 to Feb 14 2013. You can view the banner here - the banner would appear in English only. Mono for the POTY 2012 committee at 20:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Currently there are mass-migrations of interwiki data being moved to
WP:Wikidata. These appear in Watchlists as large-scale bot deletions and look like this
[1]. Based on the feedback at
Wikipedia talk:Wikidata#Lack of advanced warning and no decent how-to guide for WP:EN editors and the the Talkpages of the bot operators,
User talk:Addbot#Avril Lavigne -- interwikilink removals, it would appear that most editors on en.wikipedia are utterly unaware of this. Although others disagree, I think there is a case for a sitewide (logged-in) use of {{
sitenotice}}
to give editors a heads up on a such a significant change to the way in which articles work. That said, there still isn't (yet) any decent documentation to point people to, despite the bots going forward at full-steam, and it's happening now. —
Sladen (
talk) 11:28, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
When doing a live beta, letting people back out is crucial to avoiding discontent, as well as providing a place to post bugs. Neither of these have been done. Indeed, the current attempt doesn't even explain what VisualEditor is. As such, I would suggest the following sitenotice be added immediately.
Wikipedia is happy to announce the live Beta of VisualEditor, a tool that offers a way to edit pages without needing to learn wikimarkup. This has been automatically activated on all accounts. If you need to edit without VisualEditor, you can choose "Edit source" instead of "Edit". For bug reporting, go to Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback.
To opt out of VisualEditor, simply go to Preferences → Gadgets, scroll down to "Editing", tick the box labelled "Remove VisualEditor from the user interface", then scroll to the bottom and click "Save". You can reactivate it at any time by unticking the box.
I've used a little colour to make sure people see it. I suggest Sitenotice, as whatever hack is being used for the uninformative message literally takes 3 seconds before it appears on the otherwise completely-loaded page. This provides the necessary information, explains what's happening, and tells people where to report bugs, and how to opt out - things that should have been done 15 hours ago.
Thank you. (Crossposted to WP:ANI) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 14:36, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
#mediawiki-visualeditor
, but the answer was much simpler; the intended notice had expired because of |until=2013-06-30
, before deployment had occurred
Old revision of MediaWiki:Watchlist. —
Sladen (
talk) 19:27, 2 July 2013 (UTC)This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hi. The notice about the RFC concerning default state of the VisualEditor should be removed until there's a consensus to include it in a site-wide notice for all users. (If such a consensus exists already, please provide a link to it. I checked this talk page and saw nothing.) -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:14, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Let's rather have a site notice than a watchlist notice. Watchlist notices are easily overlooked (I always miss them). Having the site notice up for those four or five hours doubled participation in the RfC, leading to about 100 editors leaving an opinion: that was a good thing. Andreas JN 466 14:32, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
It's "VisualEditor", not "the Visual Editor". Could someone correct this? Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 22:26, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
An editor at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default_State RFC#RFC tag brought up that he's unable to disable the site notice for the Visual Editor RFC. This user surfs with JavaScript disabled.
I tested this with both Firefox (22) and IE (9). When you disable JavaScript the "[hide]" link that's normally to the upper-right of a site-notice is centered and positioned above the notice. However, clicking it has no affect. Under Firefox the HTML sent to me when JavScript is disabled was <div class="mw-dismissable-notice-close">[<a href="#">hide</a>]</div>. That's not going to hide the notice.
I enabled JavaScript, disabled the site-notice (which removed the notice), and then disabled JavaScript. The site notice is visible again.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to turn the site notice back on so that I can view the HTML for a site notice's "hide" link when JavaScript is enabled. I assume there was an onclick or something similar that handled setting the "hide notice" flag using the MediaWiki:Sitenotice id.
Someone suggested the site notice could be disabled via Preferences / Gadgets / "Suppress display of the fundraiser banner." However, The site notice for this RFC is apparently not a "fundraiser banner" and so the preference did not remove the RFC site notice. -- Marc Kupper| talk 21:10, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
#siteNotice { display:none; }
to your .css file
like so.
Killiondude (
talk) 21:30, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
I would suggest that seven days is probably enough time for having shown a site notice about an RFC to everyone. Perhaps it is about time to take this notice down? Dragons flight ( talk) 16:33, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
{{
sudo}}
assistance. —
Sladen (
talk) 17:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Should we add one, following the examples of Commons, de.wp, es.wp, fr.wn? It Is Me Here t / c 19:17, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Where does one make a request for a notice on an RFC? Any specific procedure? There is a discussion on Wikipedia_talk:MOS#Bird_common_name_capitalisation that might need more eyes. Shyamal ( talk) 02:31, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Should this request for comment re the use of the "Wiki Loves X" campaign title format be advertised here? It is going nowhere at the moment and I suspect very few editors know about it. Helen Online 08:09, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I cannot remove this site notice. I click on the X, and it goes, but when I go to a new page, or refresh, the notice returns. I use Opera. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:42, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello, good news! Thanks to FreedomFighterSparrow and Brion, unregistered users can now hide the sitenotice again. Previously, they were forced to see it continuously.
In all cases, please use the sitenotice with care, and keep in mind that occasional visitors see sitenotices on all their visits, if they visit less than once a month or they don't click "dismiss" and save a cookie. Nemo 15:43, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Similar to how SOPA was voted on, I'd like to request this important discussion ( Wikipedia talk:Freedom of Panorama 2015) be put on the sitenotice. This banner would only be shown in Europe. -- A Certain White Cat chi? 20:19, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
As an FYI, I saw this banner in the United States. The discussion permits this banner to be used only in Europe. There is no discussion that authorizes this banner to be displayed to non-European users. -- B ( talk) 22:26, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, we made a request for a consensus for semi-regular site notices for the Wikipedia Library at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikipedia_Library:_Running_a_SiteNotice_for_logged-in_users. Please comment, we would appreciate feedback/support. Cheers, Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 16:44, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
A couple months ago, I proposed a WP:TWL Site notice for logged in users, which would communicate availability of Wikipedia Library resources ( see Tech Pump and Proposal pump). Both proposals were relatively supportive silences. As I mention in the pump proposals, their are way more accounts/accesses to partner sources available than we have distributed. Also, when we did a similar notice on French, it brought much greater attention to the program, helping French-language users recognize the program's support.
We believe their will be little concern about the notice: the program is only a benefit for editors, might encourage more constructive editing contributions by volunteers, and is highly supported in the community (as we have noticed with the recent coverage/conversation about our EBSCO partnership (see coverage in our recent newsletter). We would love to see this notice run for ~2 weeks to only signed in users, using the Annnotice exclusion of not-signed in readers (who wouldn't fully benefit from these resources), in part we are running it to create visibility to editors that don't regularly sign in and use other community communication venues (and see our semi-regular Watchlist notices).
Here is the proposed banner:
If you are an active editor and have 500 edits and a 6-month-old account on any Wikimedia project you can sign up for resources like JSTOR, Project MUSE, EBSCO, Newspapers.com and Highbeam, among many other academic and popular publishers. If you don't qualify yet, The Wikipedia Library can connect you to other research tools as well: learn more.
Thanks much, The Wikipedia Library Team,
Astinson (WMF) ( talk) 17:04, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
The 2016 WikiCup begins this week. We'd like to have a site-wide notice, running for the rest of December and all of January, with this text:
The 2016 WikiCup, our yearly site-wide competition dedicated to improving Wikipedia, starts January 1. Sign-ups remain open until February 5.
Christine (Figureskatingfan) (
talk) 05:59, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
A site notice is getting ready to go live, barring any objections. This will be for logged in users only. Please comment at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Why_am_I_seeing_a_.22Welcome.22_message.3F. — xaosflux Talk 23:49, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Please post the following notice (and remember to increment the MediaWiki:Sitenotice id):
-- Pipetricker ( talk) 02:33, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
Would it be worth this year or subsequent years putting up a banner linking to the videos of presentations at wikimania? It might be a way of making it more broadly known the sorts of things that are going on 'behind the scenes' for readers who otherwise don't know how extensive the wikimedia community activities are. Might even inspire people to think about getting involved. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 02:11, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
This
edit request to
MediaWiki:Sitenotice and
MediaWiki:Anonnotice has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hello
There is a read only phase that will happen for your wiki, on Thu 14th November from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC. Please see T234800 for details; in short, it is because of a database decommission.
I suggest you to setup a banner (so as an Anon-notice banner) 30 minutes before the read-only.
It could just say "A maintenance will be performed soon - 14th November from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC" and "You may not be able to save any edits during this time."
In any case, the read-only message will be displayed when the read-only will happen, but have a warning message prior the intervention is needed to warn people.
Thank you, Trizek (WMF) ( talk) 15:50, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
Recently for the Main Page with the WP:ITN box we've added a banner for recent coverage and news related to the COVID-19 pandemic which many have found helpful.
From a separate angle, a discussion was raised on Jimbo Wales' page, and he offered his comment related to site-wide messages, [5], which while rejected the original comment, did offer the suggestion that with the current situation around COVID-19 this may be a point to use a Sitenotice to provide helpful links to our pages on it.
Exactly what those links are, I don't know but we could replicate something like the ITN box easily, or offer something differently. -- Masem ( t) 14:05, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
We've given everyone a week to get used to it and given that both sides are claiming silent majorities I'm planning to add the following notice:
Assuming everything still works the way I think it does the notice should only display for logged in users. ©Geni ( talk) 17:09, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
DesktopImprovements_deployment
(now expired) pointed to
Wikipedia:Vector 2022, which has the RFC banner on top. —
xaosflux
Talk 18:15, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
Without WMF staff acknowledging this as a possibility this is clearly beyond what community consensus can determine WP:CONEXCEPT.(Point 4)
This is a WMF decision that is solely in their hands and considering the "vibe" around the deployment it seems beyond unlikely for this to go anywhere.(Copied my response to the watchlist request) I had a search through WMF responses at the RFC page and there were not any which acknowledged this as a possibility (5 days later, they only respond to technical help and post progress updates). This shouldn't be advertised more since it is wasting everyones time. Terasail [✉️] 18:30, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
to
MediaWiki:Anonnotice at the same time (
needs to be tested).
Nemo 18:41, 29 January 2023 (UTC)