MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

Wikipedia has five kinds of top-of-page messages that can be used to convey information or announcements to readers and editors.

The "Sitenotice", found at MediaWiki:Sitenotice, is displayed at the top of all pages for all logged-in users, and for anonymous users if the following message is empty.
MediaWiki:Anonnotice can be used to display information only to anonymous/IP users, not logged-in users. Alternatively, by 'blanking' the anonnotice and replacing it with nothing (not even a space or empty paragraph!), then the sitenotice can be used as a "logged-in users only" notice to display information only to editors. When "Anonnotice" contains nothing, no notice is shown to anonymous users. When it contains "-" it disables the message in favour of Sitenotice. If it contains anything else, it will be rendered to anonymous users instead of the Sitenotice (including a "hide" button).
MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages is displayed at the top of Special:Watchlist for all users who use this feature.
The CentralNotice, found at meta:Special:CentralNotice, is an extension which can display banners at the top of a select group of Wikimedia sites simultaneously.
Geonotice, at Wikipedia:Geonotice, allows location-specific notices – and is a candidate for integration into MediaWiki.

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Citation needed backlog drive[edit]

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I'm requesting that a watchlist notice advertising Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability/June 2024 Drive run from now to about June 10th.

Want to improve Wikipedia's reliability? Compete in WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive starting on June 1st and replace {{citation needed}} tags with references!

Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 12:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please, the drive is coming up very soon. Cremastra (talk) 20:02, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... — xaosflux ^Talk 20:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done ran it until the 7th. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank-you so much. Cremastra (talk) 20:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Second notice for an RFA once voting starts[edit]

If someone plans to bump the cookie number (or however it works) when the current RFA gets to the voting stage, causing the watchlist notice for this RFA to reappear for those who dismissed it, I'd like to request that it be discussed before it's just unilaterally done. I don't agree with it. Whether it's discussed now - before we're sure it will be needed - or when a request is made, I don't care too much about. Floquenbeam (talk) 18:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, that should not become a standard practice without first discussing it. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:55, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist suggestion[edit]

I suggest that we have a watchlist announcement about the ongoing Wikimedia Foundation election. This affects all WMF projects, and is of direct interest to the Wikipedia community.

I propose something along the lines of...

"The Wikimedia Foundation Board election process is ongoing. There are four open seats on the Board of Trustees, and twelve candidates running in the election. Until June 12th, you may ask questions to the candidates here. You can use this tool to verify if you are eligible to participate in the election."

Thoughts? Pecopteris (talk) 01:05, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]