On 08/12/05, Magnus Manske
<magnus.manske(a)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