Its become so obnoxious I have used Ad-block plus's rules to prevent it from loading, because I got sick if having half my screen taken over with obnoxious banners that I really dont like seeing, Watchlist notices given their low intrusion levels work a lot better.
John On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Kirill Lokshin <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 05/19/2011 05:42 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> On 05/19/2011 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > > >>> 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for > > >>> information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc. > > >> > > >> Agreed with this in relation to the Board elections. Just users with > > >> accounts are able to vote or to be candidates. And those who are > > >> interested in our governing should be able to read it on Meta, which > > >> should have clear note on Main Page that there are ongoing elections. > > > > > > There are many people who would be legitimately interested in board > > > elections, but who don't visit Meta on a regular basis (or at all, for > > that > > > matter). > > > > Then notices just on Main Pages? I don't think that a random user from > > search engines is interested in our governing. > > > > Main Pages tend to be far more reader-facing than editor-facing, in my > experience; I'd be surprised if all that many regular editors visit them. > > A better alternative, in my opinion, would be editor-facing pages such as > watchlists, noticeboards, etc. > > Not to say that if someone is interested in Wiki*p*edia governing, may > > be introduced into the whole process after two or three pages, starting > > from [[Wikipedia]] in any language. > > > > As an account owner on LiveJournal, but without any activity, I am > > getting emails which inform me about the process of their elections. > > However, I don't remember that I saw that online (although I am very > > rarely there). > > > > I have no precise idea how, but it is obvious that we need to lower > > amount of our own advertising to random users. > > > Being able to have banners displayed to particular subsets of users, as > MZMcBride suggested, would go a long way to solving the problem. Given > that > the voting eligibility is based purely on a technical criterion, there's no > reason why we couldn't display notices only to those users actually > eligible > to participate. > > Kirill > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
