[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Overloaded with CentralNotices

[legoktm]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Konstantinos Stampoulis
> <geraki at geraki.gr> wrote:
>
> > Echo can be a good alternative.
> > Imagine a new notification for every user, a "global notice" (not a talk
> > page message)
> > This can be sent to registered users, with its own icon, a notification
> > message with text simillar to what it would be included in a banner, and
> > linking to the relevant page (instead of own talk page etc).
> > So, every user will get it only once, but he can go back to it by clicking
> > the notifications icon.
> >
> > mockup: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echo-centralnotice.png
> >
>
> Yes, that could be a great idea, in particular when combined with some
> kind of topic-specific opt-in and opt-out.
>
> There has been quite a bit of thinking about technical solutions to
> this kind of problem, including hope that Echo and/or Flow could play
> a role in them. See e.g. the material at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Movement_broadcasting , in particular
> the linked Wikimania presentations from this year (by Andrew Gray) and
> last year (by myself).


I like this idea too. I've filed
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56361 as an enhancement
request for Echo to enable this kind of functionality.
-- Legoktm