Changes: Help:Announcements

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Announcement notifications can be used to draw a community's attention to a specific page or post. Announcements are available on all Fandom communities.

Managing announcements

AnnouncementMgmtPage — The Announcements management page

Administrators and Discussions Moderators can use the announcements management page to create new announcements and browse a log of the last 30 announcements.

The announcements management page is linked from the Admin Dashboard. It can also be accessed by adding /announcements after the wiki's URL (for example, community.fandom.com/announcements).

Creating an announcement

An announcement has two elements:

The announcement text is what users will see in their notifications and what they will click or tap. The announcement text is limited to 100 characters.

The destination URL is where the notification takes the user when they click or tap it. This URL can point to a wiki article, a Discussions post, a blog post, or any other page on the community. The only requirement for the destination URL is that it points to a fandom.com or wikia.org page.

A community can only have one active announcement at any time. Announcements automatically expire after 30 days, but Administrators and Discussions Moderators can manually expire an announcement at any time before that. If multiple announcements are needed at one time, a news page or a blog post can be used to provide all the details and then used as one announcement's destination URL to direct users there.

Recipients

Announcement notifications are sent to all users who have been active on the community in the last 90 days. This includes users who have edited on the wiki or created, replied to, or upvoted a Discussions post.

Once an announcement is created, the management page displays how many users the notification was sent to.

Further help and feedback

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-'''Announcement notifications''' can be used to draw a community’s attention to a specific page or post. Announcements are available on all FANDOM communities.
+'''Announcement notifications''' can be used to draw a community's attention to a specific page or post. Announcements are available on all Fandom communities.
 [[File:AnnouncementCreateNew.png|center|600px]]
-==Managing Announcements==
+== Managing announcements ==
 [[File:AnnouncementMgmtPage.png|thumb|330px|The Announcements management page]]
-Administrators and Discussions Moderators can use the Announcements management page to create new notifications. The Announcements management page is found at <code>/announcements</code> (for example <code>marvel.wikia.com/announcements</code>) and is linked from the [[Help:Admin_Dashboard|Admin Dashboard]].
+Administrators and Discussions Moderators can use the announcements management page to create new announcements and browse a log of the last 30 announcements.
+The announcements management page is linked from the [[Help:Admin Dashboard|Admin Dashboard]]. It can also be accessed by adding <code>/announcements</code> after the wiki's URL (for example, <code>community.fandom.com/announcements</code>).
+== Creating an announcement ==
 An announcement has two elements:
-The '''announcement text''' is what users will see in their [[Help:Notifications|notifications]] and what will prompt them to click or tap it. The announcement text is limited to 100 characters.
+The '''announcement text''' is what users will see in their [[Help:Notifications|notifications]] and what they will click or tap. The announcement text is limited to 100 characters.
-The '''community URL''' is where the notification takes the user when they click or tap it. This URL can be a [[Help:Discussions|Discussions]] post, a wiki page, a [[Help:Blogs|blog]] post or any other page on the community. The only requirement is that it be a wikia.com or fandom.com domain
+The '''destination URL''' is where the notification takes the user when they click or tap it. This URL can point to a wiki article, a [[Help:Discussions|Discussions]] post, a [[Help:Blogs|blog]] post, or any other page on the community. The only requirement for the destination URL is that it points to a fandom.com or wikia.org page.
-Only one announcement can be active on a community at any given time. If multiple announcements are needed at one time, the community should create a news page or blog series and then create announcement notifications directing users there when updates are added.
+A community can only have one active announcement at any time. Announcements automatically expire after 30 days, but Administrators and Discussions Moderators can manually expire an announcement at any time before that. If multiple announcements are needed at one time, a news page or a blog post can be used to provide all the details and then used as one announcement's destination URL to direct users there.
+== Recipients ==
-Announcement notifications will automatically expire after 30 days. An Admin or Discussions Moderator can expire an announcement at any time before that. A log of the last 30 announcements will be visible on the management page
-==Recipients==
 [[File:AnnouncementNotification.png|thumb|right|300px|An announcement notification]]
-An announcement notification will be received by any user who has been active on the community within the past 90 days. This includes users who have edited a wiki page or created, replied to or upvoted a Discussions post.
+Announcement notifications are sent to all users who have been active on the community in the last 90 days. This includes users who have edited on the wiki or created, replied to, or upvoted a Discussions post.
+Once an announcement is created, the management page displays how many users the notification was sent to.
+== Further help and feedback ==
+{{Help and feedback section}}
+[[de:Hilfe:Mitteilungen]]
+[[es:Ayuda:Anuncios]]
+[[fi:Ohje:Tiedotukset]]
+[[fr:Aide:Annonces]]
+[[it:Aiuto:Annunci]]
+[[ja:ヘルプ:お知らせ]]
+[[pl:Pomoc:Ogłoszenia]]
+[[pt:Ajuda:Anúncios]]
+[[ru:Справка:Объявления]]
+[[tr:Yardım:Duyurular]]
+[[uk:Довідка:Оголошення]]
+[[zh:Help:公告]]
+[[Category:Help]]
-When an announcement is created, the management page will display how many users were sent the notification.