On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:40:22 -0500, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Or at the very least, stick the message on recent changes ahead of time, but not every single page until somewhere closer to the actual downtime.
Perhaps this is a good place to ask the question - is RC "required reading"?
I know that I look at RC on en: nearly never, even though it's where I do most of my edits, simply because there's *so much* on it.
Yet it's where e.g. the recent Election was announced, apparently (which I found out from one of the candidates' User pages), and where you propose to stick downtime notices.
So - should I look at RC regularly?
(Incidentally, I also think 24 hours is a reasonable time span for the warning to be up.)
Cheers, Philip
Philip Newton wrote:
Perhaps this is a good place to ask the question - is RC "required reading"? [...] Yet it's where e.g. the recent Election was announced [...] So - should I look at RC regularly?
We often have people complaining that things aren't announced visibly enough. Therefore, obviously, we need a central place to do so. For the really important things (like the election), Recent Changes is perfect for that, because most Wikipedians look at it regularly, and then those that don't can't complain they weren't informed ;-)
So the answer to your question is: If you want to be informed of these important things, then you should probably have a look at either [[Special:Recentchanges]] or [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]] every once in a while (the latter probably usually loads faster). However, it's not required reading if you are not interested in anything that is usually announced there.
Timwi
--- Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Philip Newton wrote:
Perhaps this is a good place to ask the question - is RC "required reading"? [...] Yet it's where e.g. the recent Election was announced [...] So - should I look at RC regularly?
We often have people complaining that things aren't announced visibly enough. Therefore, obviously, we need a central place to do so. For the really important things (like the election), Recent Changes is perfect for that, because most Wikipedians look at it regularly, and then those that don't can't complain they weren't informed ;-)
Actually I seldom have time to look at RC on the English Wikipedia anymore since it takes me an hour or two every day just to go through my watchlist and 'Related changes' from my user page. Having [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]] displayed at the top of all watchlists and maybe at the top of all related changes pages would help matters.
-- mav
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 19:38:44 -0700 (PDT), Daniel Mayer wrote:
Having [[Wikipedia:Recentchanges]] displayed at the top of all watchlists and maybe at the top of all related changes pages would help matters.
That would indeed be useful.
Cheers, Philip
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