[Foundation-l] A notice on external links to old revisions, thoughts.

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 3/22/06, M. Creidieki Crouch <creidieki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > '''Please note:'''  You have requested an old version of the article
> > {{{PAGENAME}}} from {{{rev timestamp}}}. A more current version of the
> > article is [[{{cur}}|available here]]. You may also [[{{{diff
> > page}}|view the differences]] between the version you requested and
> > the current version, or [[{{{hist page}}}|view the entire history]] of
> > this article.    The old revision is available [[{{{old
> > revision}}}|here]].
>
> Could we just put a similar message in [[MediaWiki:Revisionasof]]?  I
> don't understand quite how the MediaWiki-namespace messages are
> included in the page rendering, but it would also need to be a much
> larger font than it currently is.

I'd agree that we should have a more obious notice in the common case
as well, but the challenge would be that a a sufficently loud notice
on every such page would be an unacceptable annoyance to the huge
number of users who know what they are doing. At least, that was my
thought.