peter.southwood wrote:

Good idea with wide range of applications.

Linking to the mockup by Geraki so people don't have to click through the mailing list post:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Echo-centralnotice.png

romaine.wiki wrote:

Certainly a good idea.

I see currently two ways of receiving information by communities on their wikis:

1. CentralNotice: too many notices will result in banner blindness and blocking notices as they are very disturbing often on every page.
2. Posting in central discussion/notifications page on a wiki: a lot of users will see that notice but also many users do not see them.

To me there is a gap between CentralNotice messages on one side and on the other hand the postings in central discussion/notifications page. I think we should get a way to notify every user targeted just as with the CentralNotice: if needed geo specific, translated, etc but isn't shown as big banner on every page. The Echo system seems a good way to fill that gap.

The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/392, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.

Also requested on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Echo_%28Notifications%29/Create_a_notification_for_all_users

Any Updates here? This function would be relly nice, especially for small projects.
Sitenotice is actually outdated and needs a proper replacement. Using Echo is definitely the best solution.

Yeah, there are a number of questions to figure out here:

• Who has permission to create a sitewide notification?
• How do they turn it on?
• How do they turn it off?
• If a sitewide notification is turned off, does the notification item disappear for everyone who hasn't seen it?
• How many can you have running at a time?
• Do they expire?
• Can people opt out of receiving sitewide notifications?

It's totally possible to do this, it just needs some thought to figure out the details.

Thanks for your answers.
Beforehand: Sorry for my bad english.

• Who has permission to create a sitewide notification? How do they turn it on? How do they turn it off?

Ideally there should be a special page where authorized users (with a special right) can set new notifications. I made an example graphic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SitewideNotificationsExample.png
In smaller wikis admins should have access to that page by default. Nevertheless there should be a possibility for the server admin to give that special right to certain groups via localsettings.php.
The special page should contain a box where the admin can set up the notification with a limited amount of words (Bold/Italic/Links are allowed).

• If a sitewide notification is turned off, does the notification item disappear for everyone who hasn't seen it?

Yeah, it should.

• Do they expire?

Maybe it's possible to set a expiring time (with a maximum of XY days) via the special page (see example).

• How many can you have running at a time?

Personally, I would not set a limit by default since this function is not designed for extensive usage. Nevertheless it should be configurable via localsettings.php

• Can people opt out of receiving sitewide notifications?

Mhh, thats a tough one... I think they should.

I think this feature has huge potential and we should give it a try :)

Is there any progress? :)

Any updates here?

Any updates on this? It would be awesome!