A way to tie clicking "hide" to an *account* rather than just by storing it as a local cookie would also be a good move.
Tom / ErrantX On 19 May 2011 10:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: > church.of.emacs.ml, 19/05/2011 10:52: > > There are several ways of minimizing negative effects: > > 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for > > information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc. > > 2. Reduce weight - don't display a banner on every page view, but only > > on one in ten. (We have to use blank banners to do that, right?[3]) > > 3. Reduce duration. (e.g. Don't display banners for a month, only a week) > > 4. Reduce banner size and intrusiveness. Use text banners instead of > > colorful images. > > The first thing to do is 4): standard templates like [1] and [2] are ok, > while the recent "march/may updates"[3] and POTY [4] seem unnecessarily > big. > 1) is the easiest and most obvious; such banners could also be > restricted only to users with at least 100/200/whatever number of edits, > but e.g. I wouldn't know how to do so; some documentation would be useful. > 3) is not necessary in itself, but it is so if there are many banners: > CentralNotice shouldn't be in permanent use, so if there are many > requests there should be some scheduling. > > It should also be considered that the CentralNotice kills local > community sitenotices, although they are usually more important and > interesting for local users. Local communities should be able to use the > sitenotice at least for some periods of the year. > > Finally, I wonder how useful are big banners such as the "May update". I > like it (although I had to hide it a dozen times a day on several > wikis), but I didn't see any effect. Reading the letter is not so useful > in itself; it's useful if there's some discussion. There was a long > discussion on it.wiki when the board resolution was posted on the > village pump, but nothing after the CentralNotice. A local, very small > sitenotice with a link to a local discussion is probably much more > effective; perhaps it would be nice to offer communities to disable the > CentralNotice if they implement a local sitenotice or other solution. > > Nemo > > [1] > < > http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=boardvotecandidates > > > [2] > < > http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=WMDE_community_budget > > > [3] > < > http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=May2011Update > > > [4] > < > http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&method=listNoticeDetail¬ice=poty2010 > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
