Emmanuel Engelhart, 01/01/2013 17:12:
WPAR has a permanent "intelligent" notice using a gadget called AdvancedSiteNotice (IMO the best approach).
Thanks. As ar as I can see it's a JS they use to alternate five different messages some of which can be shown only to logged in users, sysop etc., but the one on Kiwix is shown to everyone. Correct? I see since early November they have about 3 thousands visit per day to their project page on Kiwix. https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A:Gadget-AdvancedSiteNotices.js&action=edit https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8:%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B9_%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9&action=edit https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3 https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8:%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B9_%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9&action=edit http://stats.grok.se/ar/201212/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3 I now see there's also a page about it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Case_Studies/2012_ARWP_Site_Notice
WPFA and WPES (still running) have had both setup a central notice during two weeks.
I have heard nothing about WPIT.
Ok. On it.wiki we have a rather thin section on Kiwix, https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Download_di_Wikipedia#Kiwix (it links a video, can you upload it to Commons so that it can be embedded?). Where should I prepare a page to point Italian users to? Ideally it would be your main page made translatable with the Translate extension (if you install it, I can do the manual work). Otherwise we can fallback to a Meta translatable page, to a "manual" translation or to that local page. I'll then propose a sitenotice on it.wiki; if we had a translatable page we could also propose a centralnotice.
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