MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

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

IPv6 RFC

I started User talk:Jasper Deng/IPv6#RFC, and I feel that the community needs to discuss the implications of the protocol, much more than just what has been discussed already.--Jasper Deng (talk) 23:43, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Hmmm... this looks important but it would go over the heads of most people and watchlist message might not get the attention of the people you want anyway. Wouldn't it be better to:

1. Post a message at WP:VPT
2. Post message on relevant talk pages, such as at WT:STiki. Getting the developers of tools on board will be very helpful. I think STiki could be an interesting case in point because it uses machine learning that looks at (amongst other things) the IP address of "anonymous" editors.

Yaris678 (talk) 11:42, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Those both failed.--Jasper Deng (talk) 21:25, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Are you saying you have done both of those things? I didn't notice any comments at WT:STiki. Yaris678 (talk) 11:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Complaint regarding POTY notice

I would like to register an objection to the sparse Picture of the Year nomination dialog currently in the page. It is my understanding that the watchlist notices are supposed to be text based minor synopses of the issue that is worthy of attention and not graphic advertisements. I have dismissed it from my UI, but I feel this opens the door to future "banner style" notices that destroy the "extremely significant" nature of the watchlist notice system. I will post linking notices at the appropraite village pumps and at WP:MWM. Hasteur (talk) 19:11, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

I understand your frustration. We tried to get CentralNotice like the years before but this didn't work (at least not yet). One significant line might be enough. Just {{edit request}} it or an admin who is reading here can implement it without such a request? Thank you. -- Rillke (talk) 20:49, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

I agree. Would also add the commons landing page from the link is poor. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:55, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

I've accepted that most people are just going to dismiss this notice and move on, however my complaint is more of a "Policy setting" nature to ensure that future ones are restricted from putting banner announcements in there. Obviously the Fundraising drives will always have their place, but it's more a attempt to guard against future adverts. Hasteur (talk) 21:28, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

I've changed it to a text notice per the request. Kaldari (talk) 07:30, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Cardiff meetup confusion - it's the Welsh language wiki meetup

Not sure where to put this, but the current link to a Cardiff meetup in the English Watchlist links to the Wicipedia meetup (the Welsh language wiki - entirely its own thing). It wasn't apparent at all for a while that this wasn't an 'en' event, or possibly somehow both (I initially put my name down for it), but after some discussion they changed their text to make it clear and I obviously withdrew my name. I'm sure there was some confusion here on the noticeboard side.

Just to say, if anyone does think it's ok to promote Wicipedia on the en noticeboard - honestly it really isn't. The official language of Wales, Cardiff and the English Wikipedia is English - there cannot be confusion over that. Good luck to them, but the en noticeboard isn't the place. Matt Lewis (talk) 12:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

This is acutally a WP:GEONOTICE not a watchlist notice. As far as I can see this addition was not discussed anywhere so I have removed it for now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:41, 12 June 2012 (UTC)