MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

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Citation needed backlog drive

I'm requesting that a watchlist notice advertising Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability/June 2024 Drive run from now to about June 10th.

Want to improve Wikipedia's reliability? Compete in WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive starting on June 1st and replace {{citation needed}} tags with references!

Thanks, Cremastra (talk) 12:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Please, the drive is coming up very soon. Cremastra (talk) 20:02, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... — xaosflux ^Talk 20:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done ran it until the 7th. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank-you so much. Cremastra (talk) 20:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Watchlist suggestion

I suggest that we have a watchlist announcement about the ongoing Wikimedia Foundation election. This affects all WMF projects, and is of direct interest to the Wikipedia community.

I propose something along the lines of...

"The Wikimedia Foundation Board election process is ongoing. There are four open seats on the Board of Trustees, and twelve candidates running in the election. Until June 12th, you may ask questions to the candidates here. You can use this tool to verify if you are eligible to participate in the election."

Thoughts? Pecopteris (talk) 01:05, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to ping @Xaosflux, since they responded to the previous posts. Pecopteris (talk) 19:17, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

My hesitation here is the knowledge that the meta:Special:CentralNotice folks probably have a plan for when to call for participation from the projects. This election has so many stages that adding a notice for each would probably lead to banner blindness. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:20, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

At this stage, unless I'm missing something, the only thing really available is the last couple days of the month-long "submit questions" phase - so we're sort of too late here. There may be some more CentralNotices on this going around as well; suggest we wait until voting is open to put a WLN up here. For right now, feel free to put a reminder at WP:VPWMF for the end of the current phase. This isn't a "hard no" if some other admin wants to do this, I just don't think it is the best use of this space. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:24, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind adding this. It's important to get enwiki involved in this process. But I think it should be shorter and have 0-1 bolded links instead of 4. Suggested rewrite:

The Wikimedia Foundation Board election process is ongoing. There are four open seats on the Board of Trustees, and twelve candidates running in the election. Until June 12th, you may ask questions to the candidates.

–Novem Linguae (talk) 21:09, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

That looks great, @Novem Linguae. Pecopteris (talk) 23:08, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

@Novem Linguae seems fine, and yes one bold "call to action" is the norm. — xaosflux ^Talk 09:20, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

They’re only proposed questions that may be asked though. Not exactly asking questions to the candidates. Stephen 12:52, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

{{Display/watchlist
 |until= 12 June 2024
 |cookie=xxx
 |text=The [[meta:Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024|Wikimedia Foundation Board election]] process is ongoing. There are four open seats on the [[meta:Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees|Board of Trustees]], and twelve [[meta:Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Candidates|candidates]] running in the election. Until June 12, you may '''[[meta:Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Questions for candidates|ask questions to the candidates]]'''.
}}

 Not done I'm going to somewhat-involved close this, because would end up expiring in about 5 hours from now even if it were done. @Pecopteris: if there is another major phase coming feel free to represent (possibly for whatever the August 2024 Panel Interview is going to be). Any admin that wants to do it anyway, feel free. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:00, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Developing Countries WikiContest

I'd appreciate if the following could be displayed for a week or so, ending on July 1.

Combat systemic bias on Wikipedia and earn special awards by signing up now for the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest!

Let me know if you have any questions! (Courtesy pings for coordinators Ixtal and Sawyer777.) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:39, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done Until 1 July 2024 per request. – robertsky (talk) 23:21, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, Robert! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:43, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

GA backlog drive notice

Requesting a watchlist notice to run until July 7, for the GAN backlog drive happening this upcoming month.

Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the July Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.

Thanks, asilvering (talk) 19:38, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done, thanks! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 19:56, 26 June 2024 (UTC)