[WikiEN-l] Upper right messages

[Cormac Lawler]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...okay, this is weird.
>
> Any non-logged-in user now gets a randomly selected message displayed
> in quite small text in the upper right - "Find out more about
> navigating Wikipedia" or "Learn how to use Wikipedia for research".
>
> Anyone know when we started doing these, and why? It seems fairly
> cluttering and quite hard to notice - I think I only picked it out
> because I've been staring at the UI for too many years!



I've always thought it's a great idea to have information prominently placed
on how Wikipedia works and how it can be improved - with more and more
people turning to Wikipedia for information, 'Wikipedia literacy' becomes
increasingly important. However, I do agree these notices are pretty
cluttered - I've uploaded an example screenshot (viewed on mac with Safari)
at: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sitenotices090508.jpg>.

Cormac