robchur wrote:

What's difficult about adding this CSS to the sitewide CSS?

zocky wrote:

The difficult part is getting people who are admins on dozens of projects where
you don't even contribute to translate and post the sitenotice, let alone
getting them to fiddle with site css. The alternative plan is to do it for them
with temp adminship. If we have to do that (and we may have to on smaller
projects), I'd rather annoy as few people as possible.

Why would you have to get anyone to do anything? If people on a specific project
*want* some sitenotices to be hidden, they can do it with CSS. If they don't
care, so what?

zocky wrote:

It's pureley a problem of getting something done in a certain period of time. I
can ask people on a few dozen projects to put up the notice (on behalf of the
Communications committee), and hope they leave it in, check back with each of
the project every day for the next two and half weeks, and if they don't like it
and remove it, ask them to consider using css to hide it from article namespace,
etc. Or, I can give them two versions of the notice and explain how to hide it
if they wish in advance, and make it simple enough that any admin on any project
can do it, even if they're clueless with css. It's simply a question of one
person doing something useful in one place, instead of many people having to do
it in many places.

Alternatively, a very nice solution which would free us from the entire process
would be a feature for foundation-wide notices which could be tuned to show in
certain namespaces and use translated versions if they exist.

robchur wrote:

Hacking one skin doesn't help all users. Not a clean solution.

(In reply to comment #4)

Alternatively, a very nice solution which would free us from the entire process
would be a feature for foundation-wide notices which could be tuned to show in
certain namespaces and use translated versions if they exist.

I've been asked about this before and I've stated that I'll do it when I get the
time. The amusing thing here is that the entire "communications committee"
doesn't seem to know what everyone else is doing/arranging regarding this whole
issue; since if you'd been listening, you'd know that.

zocky wrote:

I know that this is going on, and it's great that it is. However, the deadline
for Wikimania stipends is in one week and these notices need to be put up in a
matter of days, if we want them to have any effect. Many people don't edit
Wikipedia every day, especially now when the summer has started and the school
term is over in much of Europe.

Adding into the div style:
display: {{#ifeq: {{NAMESPACE}}||none|block}};

will show it everywhere but in main namespace.

Note that this may have perfomance problems. Although if you use it and someone
cares about it slowing the servers, they will hurry with this bug ;)

robchur wrote:

(In reply to comment #7)

Note that this may have perfomance problems. Although if you use it and someone
cares about it slowing the servers, they will hurry with this bug ;)

What a ridiculous attitude.

robchur wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4469 ***