On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I have reverse engineered the site notice. A non-Javascript user > must apparently do the following to see it, else a better method would > be mentioned in a <noscript>. > ------ > $ w3m -dump_source \ > http://upload.wikimedia.org/centralnotice/wikipedia/en/centralnotice.js?207xx > | > ascii2uni -qa 7 | perl -pwle 's/\\n/\n/g' | > perl -nlwe 'next unless /^<table/../^<\/table>/;print' | w3m -dump -T > text/html > > Please participate in a vote to determine the future copyright [Hide] > terms of Wikimedia projects (vote ends May 3, 2009). Vote now! [Help us with > translations!] > > Please participate in a vote to determine the future copyright [Hide] > terms of Wikimedia projects (vote ends May 3, 2009). Vote now! [Help us with > Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2009 are now open. translations!] > Apply now! > ------ > Maybe monitoring the URL of the source file, if any, would be less > painful. Is there a general pattern for where it is kept for all the > WMF sites?
Actually, I think there is a seed a good idea here. It should be straightforward to create a special page that showed all current site notices without using javascript. That could then be linked to, via noscript or similar option, to provide people lacking javascript support with a place to be able to read the notices. To partially answer your question, central notices are managed through [1]. It isn't the world's most useful interface if all you want to do is read notices, but it is probably better than parsing the javascript. -Robert Rohde [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
