Re: [Wikipedia-l] Please check [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] on your project

Hello all, now all active members of Wikimedia projects are invited to vote in the 2006 Election to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. After one week from the beginning, we have over 1,000 votes. Thank you for your interest! On most projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, it is advertised at the top of website. On some projects, it hasn't yet. According my presumption 8-10% projects hasn't recognized now they are invited to give voices (see below). Hence, local sysops are highly expected to ensure their wiki to be informed this Election, and if not yet, please modify [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] and put a brief notice about it. If you are not a sysop but visit such a project frequently, please let the local sysops know about that. You may want to render meta version or other projects'. Here are some examples you can reuse: En: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice Fr: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice Es: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice Ru: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice Id: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice Zh: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice I found by chance some projects not informed yet, and checked some projects including - 25 largest Wikipedias +1 I visited by chance; 3 Wikipedias lacked information - 5 large Wiktionaries; all had sitenotice - 3 relatively large Wikinews; all had sitenotice 3/31 = 10% projects had no news about Election; I feel unease with this result. One of the reasons would be that they optimized the sitenotice for other purposes. In some projects, it was just only the former news (like Wikimania scholarship) remained. Anyway, there would be terra incognita from several reasons, which all of us are invited to develop to assure the integrity of our global community. -- Kizu Naoko Wikimedia Election Committee, 2006 * vox pubuli, vox dei * _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l