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.

NPP September backlog drive

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I plan to add the following watchlist notice shortly if there's no objections. It'll run until August 31, 23:59 UTC:

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–Novem Linguae (talk) 20:08, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

There’s no need for 2024. Step hen 23:49, 24 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Changed. –Novem Linguae (talk) 00:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:06, 26 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

GOCE September 2024 drive

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Thank you. Dhtwiki (talk) 06:44, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Should probably only run for a week. That seems to be the standard here. –Novem Linguae (talk) 10:58, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Done for one week. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:29, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

WMF Board of Trustees elections

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WMF Board of Trustees elections start tomorrow I think (Sept 3). Once the SecurePoll link is published, we should probably do a watchlist notice for it, lasting one week.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections are taking place until September 17. Vote here. –Novem Linguae (talk) 02:06, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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