MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

Wikipedia has five kinds of top-of-page messages that can be used to convey information or announcements to readers and editors.

The "Sitenotice", found at MediaWiki:Sitenotice, is displayed at the top of all pages for all logged-in users, and for anonymous users if the following message is empty.
MediaWiki:Anonnotice can be used to display information only to anonymous/IP users, not logged-in users. Alternatively, by 'blanking' the anonnotice and replacing it with nothing (not even a space or empty paragraph!), then the sitenotice can be used as a "logged-in users only" notice to display information only to editors. When "Anonnotice" contains nothing, no notice is shown to anonymous users. When it contains "-" it disables the message in favour of Sitenotice. If it contains anything else, it will be rendered to anonymous users instead of the Sitenotice (including a "hide" button).
MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages is displayed at the top of Special:Watchlist for all users who use this feature.
The CentralNotice, found at meta:Special:CentralNotice, is an extension which can display banners at the top of a select group of Wikimedia sites simultaneously.
Geonotice, at Wikipedia:Geonotice, allows location-specific notices – and is a candidate for integration into MediaWiki.

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See Wikipedia:Watchlist notices for documentation of how to add, maintain or hide watchlist notices.

GOCE May 2024 drive[edit]

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Please add the following watchlist notice:

Sign up here for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' May copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars!

Thank you. Dhtwiki (talk) 05:17, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This has not been acted on. It is similar to messages that have been posted before, for our bi-monthly drives. Is there something more I need to do to get it posted? The GOCE May drive is well underway. Dhtwiki (talk) 08:07, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done - @Dhtwiki: not really, we were just a bit backlogged. I suppose the only thing you could have done is format the entire message in your ask to make it even easier to load in, see example in the edit request above. — xaosflux ^Talk 10:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I will consider using the template in the future. Dhtwiki (talk) 23:52, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Women in Green - June 2024 Good Article Editathon[edit]

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I'd like to request that this notice be added to the watchlist. Keeping the notice up until June 3 or 4 would be excellent -- our event starts on June 1st, so we're hoping to attract new participants up into the first week of the month. (@Grnrchst, just pinging you here to let you know I've made the request!)

Sign up here for WikiProject Women in Green's "Going Back in Time" Good Article (GA) editathon, running through June 2024. Learn new GA skills, help improve articles about women and women's works, and earn a special barnstar!

Thank you, Alanna the Brave (talk) 01:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, Step hen 03:44, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Citation needed backlog drive[edit]

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I'm requesting that a watchlist notice advertising Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability/June 2024 Drive run from now to about June 5th.

Want to improve Wikipedia's reliability? Compete in WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive starting on June 1st and replace {{citation needed}} tags with references!

Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 12:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]