Rowan Collins wrote:
On 08/12/05, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:
Currently, they can see "this article needs cleanup" (or the like). I though along the lines of a sidebar note; maybe a little less prominent than the current style.
Well, some things need a more prominent notice than others - e.g. a page listed for deletion needs to really draw attention to that fact. Obviously, this could still be done manually with templates, but it would be nice if the software would do it for you (it would also keep "meta" info out of the article source, though it could stay in the history as null revisions, like page moves do).
Perhaps a notice displayed at the top of the page, configurable as a wikitext-rich MediaWiki page per request type. That way "needs cleanup" could just be a little italic note, and "may be deleted shortly" could be a large red box with lots of exclamation marks.
The 'how' is just a matter of taste; I'd suggest having all these notes in one place at the sidebar, but for essential ones like "deletion", we could change the page background slightly into yellowish or red (yes, so that color-blind users can see something's different as well).
I'll announce it when the feature is advanced enough to work on these things :-)
Magnus