[Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing

Tue Apr 14 16:56:28 UTC 2009

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2009/4/14 Michael Snow <wikipedia at verizon.net>:
>> That's okay, my previous reply was a little snarky itself. I don't know
>> that we have a perfect solution, but I think the mixed messages are
>> worth fixing.
>
> Agreed, and this is an issue that will occur again when we have
> overlapping important announcements. My intuitive take is that
> stacking messages, or moving them into different places, aren't
> scalable solutions. It might be desirable to have a minimal "tab"
> interface to switch between multiple active notices. We'll kick around
> some ideas, but if anyone wants to create mock-ups or make
> suggestions, please do :-)

There is also a related issue that dismissing ANY central notice
results in hiding all central notices for 7 days.  I think having
multiple simultaneous notices would be less of a problem if one could
dismiss or collapse them individually.

As it is, there are people who have never seen the licensing
notification because they closed the Wikimania box before the
licensing message was posted.

-Robert Rohde