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

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 10 21:26:21 UTC 2011


On 10 April 2011 22:56, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> 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.


Yes, that's the sort of thing. What happened and what do we need to
put those back?


> There needs to be serious consideration of not further diluting the potency
> of banner messages and of not annoying users.


Would user tests measuring annoyance help?

We could have the banners just for anons and have switching them off
as a user option!


- d.



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