[Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:56 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:52 PM, church.of.emacs.ml
> <church.of.emacs.ml at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of CentralNotices? I noticed
>> there are a lot lately (fundraising, wikimania and most recently board
>> elections and commons POTY), some of which are not of much interest to
>> the audience.
> Mz did a RfC about it awhile ago on Meta, No idea what happened to it.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_banners

> But I do agree on them being disruptive....

I agree.  the main annoyance is that after a delay, they cause the
edit box to move down, sometimes causing the user to click on
something they didnt mean to click on.

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John Vandenberg