MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

Wikipedia has five kinds of top-of-page messages that can be used to convey information or announcements to readers and editors.

The "Sitenotice", found at MediaWiki:Sitenotice, is displayed at the top of all pages for all logged-in users, and for anonymous users if the following message is empty.
MediaWiki:Anonnotice can be used to display information only to anonymous/IP users, not logged-in users. Alternatively, by 'blanking' the anonnotice and replacing it with nothing (not even a space or empty paragraph!), then the sitenotice can be used as a "logged-in users only" notice to display information only to editors. When "Anonnotice" contains nothing, no notice is shown to anonymous users. When it contains "-" it disables the message in favour of Sitenotice. If it contains anything else, it will be rendered to anonymous users instead of the Sitenotice (including a "hide" button).
MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages is displayed at the top of Special:Watchlist for all users who use this feature.
The CentralNotice, found at meta:Special:CentralNotice, is an extension which can display banners at the top of a select group of Wikimedia sites simultaneously.
Geonotice, at Wikipedia:Geonotice, allows location-specific notices – and is a candidate for integration into MediaWiki.

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See Wikipedia:Watchlist notices for documentation of how to add, maintain or hide watchlist notices.

February Signpost notice

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The February edition is now out. jp×g 🗯️ 10:26, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

per purring, set to 5 days and not 7 (every three weeks = 1.333 per month and not 1 per month, 1 issue a month with a 7-day notice = 1.33 issues a month with a 5.2-day notice) jp×g 🗯️ 03:55, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RFB

I'm not sure why - possibly an incorrect cookie? - but Barkeep's RFB is not showing up on my watchlist notice, and I haven't dismissed it. Floquenbeam (talk) 16:23, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

666 was briefly used inadvertantly by JPxG but was fixed within a minute. So unless you happened to dismiss that one within a minute of it being posted, then I can't explain it — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:41, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I guess as long as it's showing up for others, it doesn't matter, except as a puzzle. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:44, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I bumped the cookie — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:47, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's showing up for me now. Thanks. And sorry if we wasted a cookie on me. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:48, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What happened was that I saw the currently-existing watchlist notice was cookie 665, and the commented-out template was 667, so I figured that someone had chosen to opt over the number of the Beast and skip it. Not wanting to miss out on an opportunity for spectacle, I gladly used this number for the Signpost notification, then to my great dismay and crestfall when answering the FPER I noticed that I had somehow missed the other notice having 666, so I updated the Signpost one to be 667, and the GOCE one to 668. I may be remembering this incorrectly but I am pretty sure this is what happened.

Anyway, all that to say this is probably my fault. jp×g 🗯️ 17:55, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The March edition is now out. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:03, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]