On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
...okay, this is weird.
Any non-logged-in user now gets a randomly selected message displayed
in quite small text in the upper right - "Find out more about
navigating Wikipedia" or "Learn how to use Wikipedia for research".
Anyone know when we started doing these, and why? It seems fairly
cluttering and quite hard to notice - I think I only picked it out
because I've been staring at the UI for too many years!
I've always thought it's a great idea to have information prominently placed
on how Wikipedia works and how it can be improved - with more and more
people turning to Wikipedia for information, 'Wikipedia literacy' becomes
increasingly important. However, I do agree these notices are pretty
cluttered - I've uploaded an example screenshot (viewed on mac with Safari)
at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sitenotices090508.jpg>.
Cormac