2008/9/22 Owen Blacker owen@blacker.me.uk:
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)
I believe everyone eligible to vote has now been notified personally. We have a well oiled machine here. :)