MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-details

The oversight elections have finished, so the notice should be removed. Maxim_(talk) 16:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Barras || talk 16:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

{{editprotected}} Isn't it better to put "There are $1 pages in your watchlist, not counting talk pages.
Also suggested revision: "There are $1 pages in your watchlist, but the total may be higher if talk pages were counted." :| TelCo NaSpVe :| 04:43, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If we changed it to either of your suggestions, you would run into situations where people who have only 1 page (I realise there are probably few) would see "There are 1 pages in your watchlist, not counting talk pages" which is grammatically incorrect. Any reason in particular that you feel the need to change the interface message? Lauryn Ashby (talk) 04:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"1 pages on your watchlist" is not grammatically correct either. I believe that "not counting talk pages" may be too complex for our readers. :| TelCo NaSpVe :| 04:55, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So replacing one grammatically incorrect message with another is your solution? There's no need to change it, "not counting talkpages" is perfectly simple. Lauryn Ashby (talk) 04:56, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, but if it being grammatically correct is your goal (which it seems to be considering that you keep going back to it), then should we append "page$2"? (And I don't believe either "counting" or "talkpages" to be simple, but fine, I'll leave the end clause that way) :| TelCo NaSpVe :| 05:00, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have no "goal", I simply asked why you wanted to change it. You didn't give a compelling reason to make a change to an interface page which will affect every user on the wiki, so I'm declining to change it. Lauryn Ashby (talk) 05:04, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How about "You have $1 pages on your watchlist"? I believe things are usually on a list, not in one, so "on" is accurate there. But appending "you have" to the start seems to resolve the grammar issue. {{Sonia|talk|en}} 05:17, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I needed that. :| TelCo NaSpVe :| 05:29, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

{{editprotected}} sorry to bother an admin again, but I believe just adding "You have" to the start would make things clearer and fix the grammar issues. {{Sonia|talk|en}} 10:52, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Thanks for the notice, a good idea. -Barras ^talk 16:59, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Add adminstats notice!

{{editprotected}}Please add:

{{adminstats}} have been updated and are available for any administrator of the Simple English Wikipedia.

With an expiry time of 2 weeks.

I don't think we really need that. We only have about 10 active admins and I think most of them are aware of the templates. I suggest just putting a note on the talk pages of the users it applies to. Osiris (talk) 02:03, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised there are only 10 active admins. Simple wiki is pretty big. Anyways rather than notify every admin personally and give the appearance of a spammer, those that aren't aware of it can discover it for themselves.—cyberpower ^Chat_Hello! 02:47, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not done - Sorry, but this is not really needed. As Osiris pointed out, there are only very few (active) admins around here and most, if not all, already know about this template and use it already. -Barras talk 21:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]