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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.

See Wikipedia:Watchlist notices for documentation of how to add, maintain or hide watchlist notices.

Our first issue of The Signpost for 2019 is out now. Chris Troutman (talk) 07:01, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Nakon 07:23, 31 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be appropriate to add Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019 to the watchlist notices? I've advertised it around the usual fora, but a lot of users who would be affected by the results of said consultation might never interact with the village pumps and the like. Jc86035 (talk) 09:31, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: this is currently being shown on a CentralNotice, the target of which eventually leads back to the discussion above. — xaosflux ^Talk 12:47, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The February issue is out now. Chris Troutman (talk) 11:35, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Done — xaosflux ^Talk 12:38, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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