Angela_ wrote:
Anthere wrote:
5. The message appeared everywhere in english, and
people did not know how to have it translated
The message did have an [edit] link attached to it. Is there a way of
making this clearer? Perhaps just having the word "edit" in the target
language would help?
Sorry, but I do not understand your comment at all.
When I look at any page on en right now, say my watch list, I currently
see a message at the top of it, with a red border all around it. The
message says "To help support Wikipedia, please visit our fundraising
page, or read about how we use the money.".
There is no [edit] link within it, attached to it. Where do you see one ???
6. The message
is not pretty (location in the page, red border, police size...)
This can be changed in [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] but I expect many
people don't know that. Bill's suggestion of including a link to
"What's this announcement all about?" could address that issue and
explain how to reformat the message.
Yes.
7. The message
appears on every page (not enough discretion)
That's a ridiculous objection. The Wikipedia logo also appears on
every
page. Current Events appears on every page.
I agree. But still that is an objection which was
made. And this is one of the reason why the message was removed from non en pedias.
I don't think that the notice appearing on every page had anything to
do with being removed from the non-English Wikipedias. It was removed
from them only for the reason that it was never supposed to be there
in the first place. Jimbo requested that it be put on the English
Wikipedia because of the expected increased in traffic from Slashdot.
As the Slashdot article was in English and linked only to the English
Wikipedia, the message was only required on the English Wikipedia. As
a result of trying to set up a system where the message would be
editable, it was accidentally placed on all Wikipedias, a situation
which was rectified as soon as Tim Starling was made aware of it.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ALe_Bistro#Gratuite_.3F
And yes, I was the one who suggested that the message be put on the
pedia after Jimbo told me of the interview. That created such an uproar
I regret it.
Anthere wrote:
What I would like to see is something similar to
the current "you have a message"...
I think this is a great idea, as long it is not abused by people
wanting to draw attention to some dispute or edit war they are in.
Since these would be global community messages, I do not see why local
dispute or edit war would be there. Some users try to spread edit wars
on the wrong mailing list, but usually, they are told they are in the
wrong place. Here, more simply, their message would be deleted.
Once the page
is read, the warning message would disappear...
It wouldn't disappear for non-logged in users unless we want to start
sending them cookies.
Angela.
True. But, the current message with red border does appear constantly as
well.