On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <ssnyder@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I strongly recommend requesting watchlist notices on the larger projects, set to run for at least a few days before and after the deployment.  That's less disruptive than a CentralNotice banner, and it will reach many of the active users (the users who are most likely to be fielding all the questions about the change).

This is a easy request to fulfill... except for the translation issue. Do you just mean English? Or the larger versions across languages? I can do an English watchlist notice on our larger projects, but have never gotten these translated before. Feel free to advise off-list. 

I'll go ahead and charge forward with an English-language watchlist notice to run at least a week before the change is live on most Wikimedia projects. Erica, Jan, and others who do outreach to non-English communities may be able to help as well. 


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Steven Walling,
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