I disagree that sitenotices are stupid or disruptive. It's a good way to inform users about really important stuff, which unfortunatelly is sometimes misused for something irrelevant. However this way everyone can be informed when needed and that's good. Using this for update information is, of course, not a best solution.
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:33 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com wrote:
Users are very confused and worried any time a new version of wiki software is launched and tested, and some major or minor bug comes invariably out.
A clear message using central sitenotice, with links to doc pages listing the changes at different levels of detail and to their talk pages to discuss them and to alert for bugs, is mandatory IMHO. Tech news are largely insufficient; evidence of work in progress should be clearly visible into all pages of interested projects. It's a basic matter of Wikilove.
Every two weeks for major stuff?, Apart from Sitenotices being disruptive and stupid, And people will just start to get that used to them that they won't even notice (or worse, use blocking technologies to get rid of them). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l