On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/4/14 Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net:
That's okay, my previous reply was a little snarky itself. I don't know that we have a perfect solution, but I think the mixed messages are worth fixing.
Agreed, and this is an issue that will occur again when we have overlapping important announcements. My intuitive take is that stacking messages, or moving them into different places, aren't scalable solutions. It might be desirable to have a minimal "tab" interface to switch between multiple active notices. We'll kick around some ideas, but if anyone wants to create mock-ups or make suggestions, please do :-)
There is also a related issue that dismissing ANY central notice results in hiding all central notices for 7 days. I think having multiple simultaneous notices would be less of a problem if one could dismiss or collapse them individually.
As it is, there are people who have never seen the licensing notification because they closed the Wikimania box before the licensing message was posted.
-Robert Rohde