Huji wrote:
Please take a few seconds to have a look at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12681 and help with your comments about whether we should apply this change or not. Applying it will prevent people from spoofing the "new message" alert, but at the same time, will make the new message bar to appear where it never appeared before, which may not be desired.
I've reverted this change for now as the moved bar interferes with various templates in use on Wikimedia sites such as geolocation, protected and featured article icons, etc.
These are currently stuck up above the article content area with absolute positioning -- meaning it fails when there's more space than expected.
This has been an intermittent problem with the site notice, but with a big ol' bar that stretches across the whole content area it affects even people with large window sizes.
We'd like to figure out a nicer way to handle these templates; once that's done and we can remove the positioning hacks, we can revisit this sort of change.
-- brion