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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NPP May backlog drive[edit]

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I'd like to request that the following notice be added to watchlists until April 30, 23:59 UTC:

Sign up now for the May 2024 New Pages Patrol backlog drive. Review articles and earn barnstars!

Thank you, Hey man im josh (talk) 17:47, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done for one week. I'm an NPP coordinator so I'm a little biased, but there's no objections in this talk page section, and in the past these have always been approved. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

U4C election vote[edit]

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Hi, the vote to elect inaugural members of the U4C is ongoing until May 9th, 2024. There will be a CentralNotice running in parallel. Based on the last UCoC-related watchlist message, I would like to propose the following message:

{{Display/watchlist
 |until=May 9, 2024
 |cookie=nnn
 |text= Voting period for the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2024|Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)]] is open through <u>9 May 2024</u>. Read the information for voters on the [[m:Special:MyLanguage/Universal Code of Conduct/Coordinating Committee/Election/2024#Voting|voting page on Meta-wiki]] and '''[[m:Special:SecurePoll/vote/396|cast your vote here]]'''.
}}

Let me know if there's anything else that will need to be added, and thanks for your consideration. Best, RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 07:44, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Changed the first bold to ul, standard convention is to have one bold "call to action". — xaosflux ^Talk 13:34, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done for one week. I removed the underline and condensed the text a bit. Hopefully these changes are OK. Let me know if you'd like it modified. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:26, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, looks good for me. Cheers, RamzyM (WMF) (talk) 03:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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]