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Commons notice (Watchlist notice)

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Commons has 3 kinds of top of page messages that can be used to convey information or announcements to readers and editors:

An extensive and configurable watchlist notice system
The "Sitenotice", found at MediaWiki:Sitenotice, is displayed at the top of all pages for all logged-in users, and for anonymous users if MediaWiki:Anonnotice is empty; this latter message can be used to display information only to users who are not logged in. Alternatively, by 'blanking' the anonnotice and replacing it with <p></p>, the sitenotice can be used as a "logged-in-notice" to display information only to users who are logged in. MediaWiki:Sitenotice-translation provides localised sitenotices via {{LangSwitch}}, using MediaWiki:Sitenotice for en. MediaWiki:Sitenotice can contain any markup but must contain a <p>-tag. The contents of this <p>-tag are then replaced by MediaWiki:Sitenotice-translation, loaded by a script in MediaWiki:Common.js
There is also the CentralNotice, found at meta:Special:CentralNotice, an extension which can display banners at the top of a select group of Wikimedia sites simultaneously.

New messages must increment the id, or the message will not always appear for users who hid the previous message. Read the template reference or use the Wizard when creating new messages.

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New watchlist message

{{Edit request}} Please add the following watchlist message:

{{WatchlistNotice
 |id = 1736837809457
 |text = {{LangSwitch
   | en = Join [[Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore 2025|Wiki Loves Folklore]] International media contest to document your local Folk culture on Commons.
 }}
 |type = other_media_contests
 |from = 2025-02-01 00:00:00
 |until = 2025-03-31 23:59:59
 |countries = --:
}}

✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 06:57, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tiven2240: Are you sure |countries = --: works correctly? I don’t see any special handling of -- in the template or JS code, and the JS code looks to me like it would discard the notice then (because the country will never be --). Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 18:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Lucas Werkmeister. Since this is an international campaign we cannot set a specific country. Kindly consider the country as all. ✝iѵɛɳ२२४०^{†ลℓк †๏ мэ} 03:31, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done without |countries= (as seen in e.g. Special:Diff/962994160). Let’s hope it works correctly. --Lucas Werkmeister (talk) 09:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New RfA - Gnom

There is a new Request for Adminship: Commons:Administrators/Requests/Gnom 2 - please add. --Mirer (talk) 20:50, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thanks! -- CptViraj (talk) 02:50, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]