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See Wikipedia:Watchlist notices for documentation of how to add, maintain or hide watchlist notices.

We'd like to remind Wikipedians about the Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship deadline, which is February 16. [1] I think watchlist notice would be a helpful reminder.

Something like this:

• "The Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship deadline is February 16. Apply now!"

Cheers. --Aude (talk) 03:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agree Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 18:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• I have no objection in principle, but isn't the Central Notice normally used for Wikimania things? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:21, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We already used central notice for a week for this. Now it's steward elections, and don't want to overuse central notice anyway. Cheers --Aude (talk) 23:41, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I got a request to add a notice and thinks it complies with the use of this page, but wanted to post here for a couple hours before I implement it. Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 20:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

 Done As no one objected. MBisanz ^talk 02:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

COI RfC

Please announce the ArbCom-requested RfC on COI here. It surely has more site-wide impact than the abortion-related titles. ASCIIn2Bme (talk) 01:28, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Support. An RfC on possibly deleting or downgrading a guideline should be of significant interest to the community as a whole. Cla68 (talk) 02:00, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

At Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Muhammad_images. The RfC is all-but-mandated by ArbCom, and has policy ramifications. It's not online yet, but I want to make sure there are no objections to including this as a watchlist notice before it goes online. Xavexgoem (talk) 20:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please add the following watchlist notice. Thanks, Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 20:24, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We wouldn't normally include a watchlist notice for such a narrow focussed RfC. Have you tried WP:CENT as a first step? I've disabled the request for now, but it can be reenabled if there is agreement that this notice is appropriate here. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:26, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just from discussions, we thought that a watchlist notice would be necessary [2]. I don't think centralized discussion is appropriate either if this "narrow focused" RfC isn't accepted here because CENT requires a broad-scoped discussion to be considered as a topic there. Regards, Whenaxis talk · contribs | DR goes to Wikimania! 21:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all,

I'd like to post a short(ish) message on the watchlist as part of the community launch of our new shop to try and encourage feedback as we're tweaking things and trying to make it better (/get a feel for what people want). My thought is below but very open for opinion. I'd like to get it up Wednesday or Thursday if we can and leave up for a week.

• The Wikimedia Foundation has started the community launch of the new Wikimedia Shop with official Wikipedia merchandise. They are looking for feedback on all aspects of the store and offering both a 10% discount (CLAUNCH in discount box at checkout) and a $10 global maximum shipping for most orders.

Thoughts? Jalexander--WMF 00:56, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You would save a lot of grief by dropping all text from "and offering both...". It's one thing to use the watchlist notice to inform editors of a new feature and to invite feedback, but promotion even of good causes will cause unnecessary trouble. Anyone remotely interested would check the link where presumably it mentions the discount, so any mention here is superfluous. I would suggest further brevity:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for feedback at the community launch of the new Wikimedia Shop with official Wikipedia merchandise.

Johnuniq (talk) 02:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The time has finally come to settle the mess left over from last year's RFC. A carefully structured RFC to be overseen by three previously uninvolved admins (already recruited) is ready to go live. As was the case last time, it would be best if there were a site-wide notice about it as it effects everyone. As soon as that is ok'd the RFC will open and the notice can go live. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:40, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]