[Foundation-l] "How many articles have you created?"

[MZMcBride]

David Gerard wrote:
> For that matter, the contents of
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for
the
> site notice.

As long as they all use class="obnoxious-wikipedia-ad-banner". ;-)

At one point there were "anon tips" above the tabs in Monobook. These were
text-only snippets that appeared only for logged-out users. For example one
snippet was, "Have questions? [[Wikipedia:Questions|Find out how to ask
questions and get answers.]]" The old code is available here:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=288720468>. It might make sense
to implement something like that again.

There needs to be serious consideration of not further diluting the potency
of banner messages and of not annoying users. It'd be nice if there were an
easier way to grab edit count from the page source when displaying banners
like these (wgEditCount or something). This could be used to more accurately
target users. I filed <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28484>
to track this.

MZMcBride