On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Konstantinos Stampoulis <ger...@geraki.gr> wrote: > 2013/10/29 Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> >> >> How would you suggest we tackle this problem? >> > > Echo can be a good alternative. > Imagine a new notification for every user, a "global notice" (not a talk > page message) > This can be sent to registered users, with its own icon, a notification > message with text simillar to what it would be included in a banner, and > linking to the relevant page (instead of own talk page etc). > So, every user will get it only once, but he can go back to it by clicking > the notifications icon. > > mockup: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echo-centralnotice.png >
Yes, that could be a great idea, in particular when combined with some kind of topic-specific opt-in and opt-out. There has been quite a bit of thinking about technical solutions to this kind of problem, including hope that Echo and/or Flow could play a role in them. See e.g. the material at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Movement_broadcasting , in particular the linked Wikimania presentations from this year (by Andrew Gray) and last year (by myself). -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
