MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive 5

How about adding a "title" attribute to the dismiss watchlist link to create a tooltip:

ButtonLink.setAttribute( "title", "Hide watchlist message for one week" );

This way, normal users have a chance of seeing that "dismiss" will hide the message for one week, instead of blindly clicking on it (or avoiding it for fear of permanently dismissing the message). What would be really cool would be to make the message dismiss until the text was changed. This would be pretty easy to do if there was a built-in MD5 function or some other sort of hash or checksum derived from the message that could be used as the value of the cookie instead of "yes". That way the code could tell if the message that was dismissed was the same as the current message. Mike Dillon 14:09, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Admins tend to tweak the message several times while it is displayed so that approach would likely not be very effective. Adding a unique id/class for each different message might work, though. —Ruud 16:37, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tooltip for dismiss watchlist link