[Wikipedia-l] Please check [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] on your project

[Akash Mehta]

I believe its a special system they've developed for the purpose. Try
asking Jimmy or Angela.

On 9/9/06, [LiM] Manop <manop at 6tub1.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm an admin of Thai WP. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to
> translate the announcment. I could not find where I can edit.
>
> Thank you,
> Manop
>
> On 9/8/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> > now all active members of Wikimedia projects are invited to vote in
> > the 2006 Election to the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia
> > Foundation. After one week from the beginning, we have over 1,000
> > votes. Thank you for your interest!
> >
> > On most projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, it is advertised at the
> > top of website. On some projects, it hasn't yet. According my
> > presumption 8-10% projects hasn't recognized now they are invited to
> > give voices (see below).
> >
> > Hence, local sysops are highly expected to ensure their wiki to be
> > informed this Election, and if not yet, please modify
> > [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]] and put a brief notice about it. If you are
> > not a sysop but visit such a project frequently, please let the local
> > sysops know about that.
> >
> > You may want to render meta version or other projects'.
> > Here are some examples you can reuse:
> >
> > En:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> > Fr:
> > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> > Es:
> > http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> > Ru:
> > http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> > Id:
> > http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> > Zh:
> > http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sitenotice
> >
> > I found by chance  some projects not informed yet, and checked some
> > projects including
> > - 25 largest Wikipedias +1 I visited by chance; 3 Wikipedias lacked
> > information
> > -  5 large Wiktionaries; all had sitenotice
> > - 3 relatively large Wikinews; all had sitenotice
> >
> > 3/31 = 10% projects had no news about Election; I feel unease with
> > this result.  One of the reasons would be that they optimized the
> > sitenotice for other purposes. In some projects, it was just only the
> > former news (like Wikimania scholarship) remained. Anyway, there would
> > be terra incognita from several reasons, which all of us are invited
> > to develop to assure the integrity of our global community.
> >
> > --
> > Kizu Naoko
> > Wikimedia Election Committee, 2006
> > * vox pubuli, vox dei *
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