I'd strongly advocate against relying on people watching a page to know about votes — I have far too many pages on my watchlist, so never use it any more, and pruning it to become useful again is one of those tasks I'm never likely to get round to. That said, User:Privatemusings put a note onto my User talk: page (presumably using AWB) over the weekend, which is by far and away the best way for us to inform people, imho. :o)
2008/9/20 Ian A. Holton poeloq@gmail.com
I think most people who put there name down should be on this list or either watching the page - at least I'd personally expect that from anybody willing to join as a member :)
Still, it would be good to notify people on-wiki.
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
Has anything been done to let people that have put their names down for membership know that the vote has started? If someone familiar with AWB or similar could go through and add a message to everyone's talk page, it would be good. I don't think we can expect everyone to be either on this list or watching the meta page.
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