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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Alex Brollo
<alex.brollo(a)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).
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