Forum:Admin notice

In my opinion, we lack an easy means to notify all admins of something. I think it'd be handy if an admin notice could be added. It could work similar to MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice, with the only difference being that it would only be shown to members of the "sysop" and "bureaucrat" user groups.

This way it'd be easier to draw admin attention to something. For example, currently I have to post the same message on 10+ talk pages if I want to the other admins' input on something or if I want to notify them of some change. With an adminnotice, this would be a lot easier.

Alternatively, a "subscribe to page" feature could be added which would produce a message similar to the "You have new messages" one if a subscribed page is changed. Admins could then subscribe to an admin noticeboard, and other users could also use it for pages changes of which they want to be sure not to miss. I know this is sort of doable with the watchlist but it's easy to miss changes for pages on one's watchlist, especially if you do not monitor RC constantly or have a habit of manually using Special:Watchlist. Overall, I think my first suggestion would be easier to do though. -- Porter21 (talk) 07:55, September 22, 2009 (UTC)


 * That's quite an interesting idea. However, if we did do a new MW message (Adminnotice or suchlike), I would have one or two concerns - that it's introducing more 'hierarchy' to the wiki, and that the same effect could generally be done more 'openly' via the forums. However, given that it would be entirely optional, that generally shouldn't be an issue. 17:43, September 23, 2009 (UTC)