MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages

Wikipedia has five kinds of top-of-page messages that can be used to convey information or announcements to readers and editors.

The "Sitenotice", found at MediaWiki:Sitenotice, is displayed at the top of all pages for all logged-in users, and for anonymous users if the following message is empty.
MediaWiki:Anonnotice can be used to display information only to anonymous/IP users, not logged-in users. Alternatively, by 'blanking' the anonnotice and replacing it with nothing (not even a space or empty paragraph!), then the sitenotice can be used as a "logged-in users only" notice to display information only to editors. When "Anonnotice" contains nothing, no notice is shown to anonymous users. When it contains "-" it disables the message in favour of Sitenotice. If it contains anything else, it will be rendered to anonymous users instead of the Sitenotice (including a "hide" button).
MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages is displayed at the top of Special:Watchlist for all users who use this feature.
The CentralNotice, found at meta:Special:CentralNotice, is an extension which can display banners at the top of a select group of Wikimedia sites simultaneously.
Geonotice, at Wikipedia:Geonotice, allows location-specific notices – and is a candidate for integration into MediaWiki.

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Women in Green's May 2025 edit-a-thon

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Hey there! Over the month of May, Women in Green is hosting our 8th edit-a-thon in which we invite editors to write and review good article nominations about women and women's works. Could we put up a watchlist notice for this event, preferably during the last few days of April and the first week or so of May? Something along the lines of this, although I can rewrite it if necessary:

Editors are invited to participate in Women in Green's May 2025 editathon, which aims to write and review many new good article nominations about women and women's works. Come along and win a barnstar!

Thanks in advance. --Grnrchst (talk) 10:03, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Grnrchst, we usually run these for a week. How about April 28 – May 4? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:33, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good! Thanks --Grnrchst (talk) 16:35, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done , with thanks to HouseBlaster for fixing an error I made. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NPP May 2025 backlog drive

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I'd like to request that the following notice be added to watchlists until April 30, 23:59 UTC:

Sign up now for the May 2025 New Pages Patrol backlog drive. Review articles and earn barnstars!

Thank you, – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:31, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping @Hey man im josh and @Novem Linguae. – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:33, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Sohom (talk) 01:07, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Sohom :) – DreamRimmer (talk) 01:43, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 2025 GAN Backlog Drive

Requesting a watchlist notice to run until 7 May for the upcoming GAN Backlog Drive.

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

Thanks. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 15:15, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done With slight tweaks, also we don't run notices for >7 days. Also, if you use the {{edit fully-protected}} template, you will get attended to faster. --qedk (t 愛 c) 17:56, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 18:04, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors' May 2025 drive

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Please post the following watchlist message from April 30 to May 6, 2025:

Sign up here for the month-long Guild of Copy Editors' May copy-editing drive. Have fun, improve articles, and earn barnstars!

Thank you. Dhtwiki (talk) 06:40, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's quite a lot of messages up there at the moment. You might get more exposure if you put one in a week's time and that would still leave plenty of time to participate — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:40, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Queued to be displayed from 2nd May. qedk (t 愛 c) 09:43, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Dhtwiki (talk) 23:11, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May Signpost notice

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The May edition is now out. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:15, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Queued to be displayed from May 6th. qedk (t 愛 c) 22:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost is out now, so moved the dates back a week. Step hen 23:18, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]