Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let everyone know that as a baby step towards ramping
up promotion of the events in the coming days, there is now a watchlist
notice (i.e. for logged in users only) on English Wikipedia.[1]
English Wikipedians also are using MediaWiki:Geonotice.js to do
geo-targeted watchlist notices for events in Washington D.C., Miami, and
New York City.[2]
I would strongly encourage anyone interested to do the same for their
events. I'll be sending a list update about how we can plan for using
CentralNotice (i.e. banners for all visitors to Wikimedia projects) in
collaboration with the fundraising team here at the Foundation. But in
the meantime, watchlist notices require almost no work, just a basic
consensus on the talk page of those MediaWiki message pages.
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Watchlist-details
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Geonotice.js
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Steven Walling
Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org