On 12/04/2012 03:59 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Writing to village pumps is sometimes useless, not
everybody looks at
them so you still rely on someone to forward the message to its actual
consumers.
If there's a specific affected page, as in this case, you're lucky
because you can write on its talk. On big wikis people necessarily use
watchlist to keep track of discussions they're interested to, and on
small wikis RecentChanges will suffice to alert most active users.
So, as already suggested on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Instructions ,
Those instructions are not specifically about MediaWiki messages, nor
does it say not to use village pumps.
I think in general, more people will be monitoring the appropriate
village pump than the exact interface talk page. Once people see it on
the pump, they can move to the talk page.
Matt Flaschen