For me, he didn't announce it. The first notice I got from that new feature was from the posting here on the list. Then I was looking through the wikitech list, and found Eriks announcement there. But: That's the technical list, I don't read it normally. However, since we're talking about editing here, I'm interested in that information. That brings me to this posting: Obviously, I don't notice if something of importance is going on. But that's not my fault, I just can't collect the information because it's to scattered among various lists, mediawiki pages, meta pages, IRC chats and so on. And I don't have time to read all of them. So I'd like to suggest a general announcement policy: Everything that is of some importance to the Wikipedia community - like new software features, changes in the hardware status, disabling of features and so on, scheduled server downtimes - should be announced on THIS list (since the official announcement list is not used any more). Always. Please. I - and probably also most others - cannot be everywhere, but still like to know what's going on. In each announcement, a hint should be given where the respective discussion takes place, so that this discussion doesn't increase the traffic here. Uli