On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/19/2011 05:42 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 05/19/2011 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > >>> 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for > >>> information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc. > >> > >> Agreed with this in relation to the Board elections. Just users with > >> accounts are able to vote or to be candidates. And those who are > >> interested in our governing should be able to read it on Meta, which > >> should have clear note on Main Page that there are ongoing elections. > > > > There are many people who would be legitimately interested in board > > elections, but who don't visit Meta on a regular basis (or at all, for > that > > matter). > > Then notices just on Main Pages? I don't think that a random user from > search engines is interested in our governing. > Main Pages tend to be far more reader-facing than editor-facing, in my experience; I'd be surprised if all that many regular editors visit them. A better alternative, in my opinion, would be editor-facing pages such as watchlists, noticeboards, etc. Not to say that if someone is interested in Wiki*p*edia governing, may > be introduced into the whole process after two or three pages, starting > from [[Wikipedia]] in any language. > > As an account owner on LiveJournal, but without any activity, I am > getting emails which inform me about the process of their elections. > However, I don't remember that I saw that online (although I am very > rarely there). > > I have no precise idea how, but it is obvious that we need to lower > amount of our own advertising to random users. Being able to have banners displayed to particular subsets of users, as MZMcBride suggested, would go a long way to solving the problem. Given that the voting eligibility is based purely on a technical criterion, there's no reason why we couldn't display notices only to those users actually eligible to participate. Kirill _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l