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.

December Signpost notice

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The December edition is now out. jp×g 🗯️ 23:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG. I'm happy to add this, but can you specify the exact message please? It'd be good if you mentioned "The Signpost" in the message somewhere. –Novem Linguae (talk) 18:50, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the script is supposed to give a message and I messed it up. jp×g 🗯️ 18:54, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JPxG. If you have time, would you like to provide a proposed wording with links to make this edit request easy to process? –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:51, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This clearly did not get done on time, and it would be counterproductive to add a watchlist notice weeks later.

Not done For future reference you're an admin so you can add them yourself without going through the edit request process. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 20:00, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January GAN Backlog drive

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Requesting a watchlist notice to run from 28 December to 3 January:

Sign up for the January Good Article Nominations backlog drive. Review good article nominations and earn barnstars!

(Edited the notice above, I made a mistake) If possible, I would like to request that it might be run from the 27th or from later today to 3 Jan, as people might check Wikipedia less during the holidays. DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 08:31, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I un-bolded one of the links. I set this to run from Dec 27 0:00 UTC to Jan 2 23:59 UTC (7 days). 7 days seems to be the standard maximum time. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:01, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Novem Linguae, I just noticed I linked the sign up to the wrong page. I have edited it to the correct one now. DoctorWhoFan91 (talk) 22:13, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:31, 26 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors' January 2025 drive

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Please post the following watchlist message from January 1 to January 7, 2025:

Sign up here for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' January copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars!

Thank you. Dhtwiki (talk) 10:30, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:36, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]