On 12/04/2012 03:59 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Writing to village pumps is sometimes useless, not everybody looks at them so you still rely on someone to forward the message to its actual consumers. If there's a specific affected page, as in this case, you're lucky because you can write on its talk. On big wikis people necessarily use watchlist to keep track of discussions they're interested to, and on small wikis RecentChanges will suffice to alert most active users. So, as already suggested on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Instructions ,
Those instructions are not specifically about MediaWiki messages, nor does it say not to use village pumps.
I think in general, more people will be monitoring the appropriate village pump than the exact interface talk page. Once people see it on the pump, they can move to the talk page.
Matt Flaschen