Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24245551-20150923225209/@comment-168424-20150925231033

I don't contact individuals to advertise. I do it to give them tips, point them in the right direction if they're repeating mistakes, encourage them, etc.

Wikis can create site-wide popups by putting the popup message in MediaWiki:Communitymessages-notice-msg‎ (keeping a link at the top to Special:WikiActivity or a wiki news page is a good idea) and then triggering it by editing MediaWiki:Community-corner.

If you want to have something like Community-corner that you can edit without triggering the popup, you can create another page like PROJECT:Community-corner (where PROJECT is  or     , on this wiki) and transclude it into the page with.