[Wikipedia-l] Site notices, bots, fundraising, etc.

Sat Jun 3 22:38:54 UTC 2006

The Communications committee is working on coordinating the use of 
sitewide notices for Wikimedia projects. This is needed for the upcoming 
fundraiser, as well as other potential announcements relevant to all 
projects, such as Wikimania or technical issues like single login.

It's anticipated that we will use a bot to help update these messages, 
which due to the nature of the pages being edited will need to have 
universal sysop privileges. Rest assured that we won't be using it for 
other sysop functions. Naturally, with all of these messages we will 
need help with translation, ideally before they are distributed but also 
after if necessary. Please let your projects know in case they have any 
questions.

--Michael Snow
Chair, Wikimedia Communications Committee