On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Konstantinos Stampoulis > <ger...@geraki.gr> wrote: > > > Echo can be a good alternative. > > Imagine a new notification for every user, a "global notice" (not a talk > > page message) > > This can be sent to registered users, with its own icon, a notification > > message with text simillar to what it would be included in a banner, and > > linking to the relevant page (instead of own talk page etc). > > So, every user will get it only once, but he can go back to it by clicking > > the notifications icon. > > > > mockup: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echo-centralnotice.png > > > > Yes, that could be a great idea, in particular when combined with some > kind of topic-specific opt-in and opt-out. > > There has been quite a bit of thinking about technical solutions to > this kind of problem, including hope that Echo and/or Flow could play > a role in them. See e.g. the material at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Movement_broadcasting , in particular > the linked Wikimania presentations from this year (by Andrew Gray) and > last year (by myself).
I like this idea too. I've filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56361 as an enhancement request for Echo to enable this kind of functionality. -- Legoktm _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>