[Foundation-l] Board election notice on the English Wikipedia

Mon Aug 21 15:43:02 UTC 2006

I think the watchlist is too minor. Established users don't read the
crap on the watchlist anymore, because they already exactly know
what's in there. So putting a notification on top of that won't help
much, maybe only for the few users that look for the first time on
their watchlist. (And then I don't even mention all the users who have
adapted their watchlist through scripts). So I don't think the
watchlist is an appropriate solution.

Lodewijk

2006/8/21, Oleg Alexandrov <aoleg at math.ucla.edu>:
> The board election is coming up real soon, and it is good that people are
> notified about that. However, I strongly disagree with the election notice
> showing up on all English Wikipedia article pages.
>
> I would believe it would be more appropriate for that notice to show up on
> wathclists only, that way any established editor can see it. I think it is just
> distracting on all article pages.
>
> Comments?
>
> Oleg Alexandrov
>
>
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