On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Andrew Gray shimgray@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