[Foundation-l] Board election notice on the English Wikipedia

[Jon Harald Søby]

What effeitsanders means is that no-one reads the intro text.
Everybody knows what it says, and don't need to read it every time
they view the page.

On 8/21/06, Oleg Alexandrov <aoleg at math.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I beg your pardon, "Established users don't read the crap on watchlists
> anymore"?  Perhaps a few editors ignore their watchlist, but unless you don't
> want to be kept updated with changes to articles, or unless you are technically
> proficient enough to use an alternative to watchlists for tracking changes (few
> do that), the watchlist is still the way things are done.
>
> As such, watchlists are much more appropriate medium if you want only editors
> to see a message, rather than putting that message on all article pages.
>
> Oleg
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:43:02PM +0200,  effe iets anders  wrote:
>
> > I think the watchlist is too minor. Established users don't read the
> > crap on the watchlist anymore, because they already exactly know
> > what's in there. So putting a notification on top of that won't help
> > much, maybe only for the few users that look for the first time on
> > their watchlist. (And then I don't even mention all the users who have
> > adapted their watchlist through scripts). So I don't think the
> > watchlist is an appropriate solution.
> >
> > Lodewijk
> >
> > 2006/8/21, Oleg Alexandrov <aoleg at math.ucla.edu>:
> > > The board election is coming up real soon, and it is good that people are
> > > notified about that. However, I strongly disagree with the election notice
> > > showing up on all English Wikipedia article pages.
> > >
> > > I would believe it would be more appropriate for that notice to show up on
> > > wathclists only, that way any established editor can see it. I think it is just
> > > distracting on all article pages.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > Oleg Alexandrov
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