David Gerard wrote:
For that matter, the contents of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for
the
site notice.
As long as they all use class="obnoxious-wikipedia-ad-banner". ;-)
At one point there were "anon tips" above the tabs in Monobook. These were text-only snippets that appeared only for logged-out users. For example one snippet was, "Have questions? [[Wikipedia:Questions|Find out how to ask questions and get answers.]]" The old code is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=288720468. It might make sense to implement something like that again.
There needs to be serious consideration of not further diluting the potency of banner messages and of not annoying users. It'd be nice if there were an easier way to grab edit count from the page source when displaying banners like these (wgEditCount or something). This could be used to more accurately target users. I filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28484 to track this.
MZMcBride