[Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

[John]

Its become so obnoxious I have used Ad-block plus's rules to prevent it from
loading, because I got sick if having half my screen taken over with
obnoxious banners that I really dont like seeing, Watchlist notices given
their low intrusion levels work a lot better.


John

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Kirill Lokshin
<kirill.lokshin at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 05/19/2011 05:42 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >> On 05/19/2011 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
> > >>> 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for
> > >>> information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc.
> > >>
> > >> Agreed with this in relation to the Board elections. Just users with
> > >> accounts are able to vote or to be candidates. And those who are
> > >> interested in our governing should be able to read it on Meta, which
> > >> should have clear note on Main Page that there are ongoing elections.
> > >
> > > There are many people who would be legitimately interested in board
> > > elections, but who don't visit Meta on a regular basis (or at all, for
> > that
> > > matter).
> >
> > Then notices just on Main Pages? I don't think that a random user from
> > search engines is interested in our governing.
> >
>
> Main Pages tend to be far more reader-facing than editor-facing, in my
> experience; I'd be surprised if all that many regular editors visit them.
>
> A better alternative, in my opinion, would be editor-facing pages such as
> watchlists, noticeboards, etc.
>
> Not to say that if someone is interested in Wiki*p*edia governing, may
> > be introduced into the whole process after two or three pages, starting
> > from [[Wikipedia]] in any language.
> >
> > As an account owner on LiveJournal, but without any activity, I am
> > getting emails which inform me about the process of their elections.
> > However, I don't remember that I saw that online (although I am very
> > rarely there).
> >
> > I have no precise idea how, but it is obvious that we need to lower
> > amount of our own advertising to random users.
>
>
> Being able to have banners displayed to particular subsets of users, as
> MZMcBride suggested, would go a long way to solving the problem.  Given
> that
> the voting eligibility is based purely on a technical criterion, there's no
> reason why we couldn't display notices only to those users actually
> eligible
> to participate.
>
> Kirill
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