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.

Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default State RFC

I would like to advertise Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default State RFC with:

There is an ongoing RFC as to whether the Visual Editor should be enabled for new users and anonymous editors.

—Kww(talk) 22:23, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree this should be more widely advertised; I'd support a watchlist notice. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:52, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Done until 2013-08-07. I just set the expiry for a week since none was suggested, feel free to extend it as appropriate. Legoktm (talk) 01:25, 31 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Template editor RfC

I propose that we add a watchlist notice for Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Template editor user right. Here is my proposed wording:

Please comment on a proposal to add a new user right for trusted template coders.

Do others think this is worthy of a watchlist notice? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:18, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd link the word "template" but otherwise agreed. equazcion ^(talk) 14:20, 13 Sep 2013 (UTC)

That's probably a good idea for our newer editors; well spotted. Also, I think the watchlist notice should run for a week. The RfC has still got a few weeks to go, but a one-week watchlist notice should be more than enough to publicise it. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:31, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone here? equazcion ^(talk) 18:53, 14 Sep 2013 (UTC)

Comment Templates affect every part of the project as do userrights. It is important for people that don't normally watch WP:RfC to be informed of this proposal so that they may able to participate in the discussion. So adding a watchlist notice is completely justified. Best. 64.40.54.143 (talk) 22:36, 14 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]