The POTY banner was announced on this list with no objections.
On Thursday, May 19, 2011, church.of.emacs.ml <church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of CentralNotices? I noticed > there are a lot lately (fundraising, wikimania and most recently board > elections and commons POTY), some of which are not of much interest to > the audience. > > > Take for example one of the most recent banners about candidate > submissions for Wikimedia's Board Elections[1]. Until most recently, it > has been displayed on every single page view for most of our 400 Million > readers or so, according to the setup for 20 days. >99.9999% of our > readers won't be candidates and for most of them, this is of no interest > at all. Which is sad of course, we'd love to get more qualified and > diverse candidates – that is to say, not only members of Wikimedia's > core community. Nevertheless, the question remains: do the positive > effects (chances on higher diversity) outweigh the negative consequences > (readers/authors are annoyed)? > > Take another example: The call for votes on common's anual picture of > the year competition has two very large banners with colorful images on > them [2]. > > I think, there has to be a serious consideration for each banner, > whether its positive effects outweigh negative consequences. Most > importantly, the fact that banners divert the readers attention and are > therefor in most cases not in his direct interest, has to be considered. > > 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. > > What do you think? Do we need to limit the use of CentralNotice through > guidelines or introduce technical measurements (e.g. blank banners[3]) > or just appeal to meta admins to consider negative effects or is > everything fine the way it is? > > Regards, > Tobias / User:Church of emacs > > [1] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=boardvotecandidates > [2] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&method=listNoticeDetail¬ice=poty2010 > [3] Afaik changing weight alone only changes the distribution of > banners. We'd have to add a "pseudo banner" which is completely empty > and then give it some weight. Using that, we ensure that there isn't a > banner on *every* page view, only on 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 or so. > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
