MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

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Citation needed backlog drive

I'm requesting that a watchlist notice advertising Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability/June 2024 Drive run from now to about June 10th.

Want to improve Wikipedia's reliability? Compete in WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive starting on June 1st and replace {{citation needed}} tags with references!

Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 12:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Please, the drive is coming up very soon. Cremastra (talk) 20:02, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... — xaosflux ^Talk 20:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done ran it until the 7th. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank-you so much. Cremastra (talk) 20:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Second notice for an RFA once voting starts

If someone plans to bump the cookie number (or however it works) when the current RFA gets to the voting stage, causing the watchlist notice for this RFA to reappear for those who dismissed it, I'd like to request that it be discussed before it's just unilaterally done. I don't agree with it. Whether it's discussed now - before we're sure it will be needed - or when a request is made, I don't care too much about. Floquenbeam (talk) 18:12, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Agree, that should not become a standard practice without first discussing it. — xaosflux ^Talk 22:55, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Watchlist suggestion

I suggest that we have a watchlist announcement about the ongoing Wikimedia Foundation election. This affects all WMF projects, and is of direct interest to the Wikipedia community.

I propose something along the lines of...

"The Wikimedia Foundation Board election process is ongoing. There are four open seats on the Board of Trustees, and twelve candidates running in the election. Until June 12th, you may ask questions to the candidates here. You can use this tool to verify if you are eligible to participate in the election."

Thoughts? Pecopteris (talk) 01:05, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to ping @Xaosflux, since they responded to the previous posts. Pecopteris (talk) 19:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

My hesitation here is the knowledge that the meta:Special:CentralNotice folks probably have a plan for when to call for participation from the projects. This election has so many stages that adding a notice for each would probably lead to banner blindness. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:20, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

At this stage, unless I'm missing something, the only thing really available is the last couple days of the month-long "submit questions" phase - so we're sort of too late here. There may be some more CentralNotices on this going around as well; suggest we wait until voting is open to put a WLN up here. For right now, feel free to put a reminder at WP:VPWMF for the end of the current phase. This isn't a "hard no" if some other admin wants to do this, I just don't think it is the best use of this space. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:24, 7 June 2024 (UTC)