Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4839035-20130107225255/@comment-4839035-20130115183453

Fandyllic wrote: So why can't you use MediaWiki:Communitymessages-notice-msg and MediaWiki:Community-corner? You hate it and it is somehow awful at grabbing people's attention?

It would be nice if you explained in detail why this option is so bad. I dislike it because it appears at the bottom, rather than the top of the page, which is illogical. Also, I do not like having to do things like adding full stops to Community Corner just to make the message visible. Also, if I want it to be visible for longer than 24 hours, editing CC again makes it visible to users who had already dismissed the messages.

As for using CC to display wiki-wide messages, it's on Wiki Activity, a feature that I do not want to encourage the use of, so forcing users to go there is bad. Also, if I see that "Community Messages have been updated!" thing, I end up ignoring it, unlike a Sitenotice which I can see immediately without leaving the page I'm on. I want anon. users and registered users to actually view our wiki's messages, rather than ignore them.

Also, the Community Corner is only 300 or so pixels wide, which isn't enough.