Is it possible to put most notices on the community page for the community / set each account to follow the community page and let people know they can un-watch the community page?
more important notices can go wiki wide? On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Romaine, > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > On the one hand, the WMF often gets accused of failing to communicate > properly and consistently with the Wikimedia community. On the other hand, > when consistent communication is attempted though things like these > notices, some people can get frustrated and tune out. > > How would you suggest we tackle this problem? Simply not using these > notices any more would lead to reducing our communication with the > community, so without a better solution, we can't really disable the > notices. > > Thanks, > Dan > > > On 29 October 2013 15:49, Romaine Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On the Dutch Wikipedia users have indicated that they perceive the number >> of Global Notices too much and the more that happens the more users will >> start to add code to their preferences to fully block every notice as they >> are so tired of them. >> >> The current load of negative feedback about the banners is currently >> coming up after the especially the FDC banners >> >> Every week a new notice is considered too much. >> >> I already noticed earlier that there is also some kind of banner >> blindness for many users: they get a banner on pages but do not look at >> them any more just as it are adds. >> >> This time several users got a notice in English what was perceived >> disturbing. >> >> Also they experience getting banners as not interesting for Wikipedia. >> >> As bonus I personally and other users have experienced that clicking away >> a banner made the banner appear again within the hour visiting other pages. >> I had that at least four times on a project, on several projects. >> Re-appeasring after being clicked away is useless and disturbing. >> >> Also it is annoying that I need to click the same banners away on each >> project I visit, many users visit Wikipedia, but also work on Commons, >> Wikidata, etc. >> >> >> I think the the CentralNotice should be redesigned or the CentralNotice >> will loose it effectiveness. Something is really going wrong. >> >> >> Romaine >> >> (tech ambassador for nl Wikipedia) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> > > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager for Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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