Actually, I cannot think of a single example where the CentralNotice and only the CentralNotice was used to alert people of anything. The closest I can come is emergency notices like http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&diff...
I'm not particularly concerned, when there are actual problems with accessibility which need to be solved. Perhaps those should receive some focus, instead of this invented problem.
-Mike
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 05:57 -0400, Casey Brown wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:06 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Seeing the sitenotice *is* required to meaningfully participate in the Wikimedia community. Else one would never know about Wikimania, or any other event throughout the year.
A sitenotice is very rarely the *only* thing we do to announce something. We also post it on mailing lists, VPs, and other wikis are fine to repost it in other locations that they list announcements.