Template talk:Comannounce

It occurs to me that we have no visible place to put community-wide announcements. Template:Comannounce is designed to be placed on the Main Page, specifically to provide alerts to the entire community.

As a note, if there are no community announcements, do not remove the template from Main Page. Instead, surround the entire code of the template with <!--- [template] --->. this will effectively cause the template to disappear off the Main Page.

The <noinclude> command will prolly be easier to handle than the <!--- [template] ---> tag --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 21:26, 23 April 2006 (BST)

Ow, hi. I made a layout switch on this template so it matches the navigation menu below. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 19:14, 24 April 2006 (BST) ==Removed announcements==--Darth Sensitive ^W! 21:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC) They were centric to one group or subset of players and, honestly, just weren't that important; I don't think they belong on the wiki's community announcements, which will only get people's attention at all if they're brief and show what's really important. I don't think the lexicon appeals to anyone paying attention to the wiki, and is important, but I can see how there might be an argument there. I was afraid something like this was going to happen eventually; we'll probably need to set up some sort of rules to govern them now. Just like Suggestions. This sort of thing wouldn't be necessary if people just thought, dammit.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 04:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The Great Mall Project is in need of help, since it aims to create something that the whole community will see in a daily basis. It needs more help to be made right than the lexicon, since the later only a few will ever read in its entirely. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 11:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Great Mall Project is to clean up Mall pages while Familes of Malton is for roleplayers and Zombie Renaissance was to keep a history of zombie battles. Now don't be survivor biased. --Sir Sonny Corleone ^{RRF CRF DORIS Hunt!} 12:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Dear Sonny - famed throughout the wiki for your balanced approach to debate. You're wrong. He's right. The really long list of community announcements looks pish: it's got too many things on it. God forbid you ever back down without the dogs being set on you - but here's your chance to prove me wrong. --Funt Solo 14:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

With the great mall only there is five announcements, the same ammout there was before (i removed the malton chronicles from there). I agree that, more than that, its too much. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 16:06, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Why not just put a single link to a projects page and say "there are projects that need contributers"? Wouldn't that solve this issue? --Funt Solo 16:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Guys, I don't think STER removed those announces only because of the sheer ammount of space they took. Commannounce should be used for messages that pertain the whole community, as a project to improve the wiki or something were it's clear that everyone can participate and not just a group. The Great Mall Project, the Lexicon and maybe Families of Malton (altough I don't like it) probably belong there, but the Zombie Rennaisance seem a bit misplaced, survivor bias aside... It's not that I say this now, but even before STER took them off the announcements that brought my attention. --Matthew Fahrenheit ^YRC☺T☺+1 16:48, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

We have a page called Current Projects, so I guess we could use that.... I always thought so many community announcements at the top of the page weren't such a good idea. I assume there's a lot of people who use the wiki for information, and don't want to contribute. As such, they visit the main page to look for links to relevant information (ie, suburbs, items, skills). The community annoucement section gets in their way then. People interested in contributing to the wiki, on the other hand, can always look elsewhere to see what's needed. After all, they're more involved in the first place. Hell, there's even a UDWiki:Community_Portal that could be made into, you know, a community portal (see wikipedia's equivalent). Anyway, damn zombies. --Daranz^{.t.mod.W(M)^∞.} 17:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I like Funt's idea. I'll port Current Projects' content over to the portal, edit the great mall thing, families, and so on into the portal, and put one link to it in the template. If you disagree I'd much prefer you talk about it here before you make any edits.--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 19:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Dear Funt Solo, mind your own damn business. We already suffered a minor war over people not minding their own business and we don't need another. So if you know what's good for you you'll shut your trap and mind your own business. Now, we allow the Lexicon to stay up there even though it never lasts. It's up for a week but then people quit. That's worthless. At least GMP and FoM people can contribute to. And like the historical groups, the Zombie Renaissance preserves history. --Sir Sonny Corleone ^{RRF CRF DORIS Hunt!} 21:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Saromu, the Comannounce template is everyones buisness. Don't get on to him. The Zombie Renaissance doesn't belong there. Families and the mall project are fine, the Lexicon can come down, although we it did last the last time around. Stop trolling. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 21:18, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Saromu, are you threatening me? Because you were wrong? What are you, ten years old? This wiki is as much my business as yours, or any other non-sysop contributer. Why don't you count to ten, take some deep breaths - or have an ice cream. Whatever you usually do to chill out. --Funt Solo 21:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

This is the internets. There's no threatening. I'm just telling you to back the fuck off. If I wanted to hear your opinion I would've spoken to you. But you see, the thing is, I don't like you. I don't want to talk to you. So if we both want to avoid drama I'd mind my own damn business. So back down with you're dogs. --Sir Sonny Corleone ^{RRF CRF DORIS Hunt!} 21:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you understood. This is a community page. Stop your damn trolling. If you don't want to talk to him. DON'T TALK TO HIM --Darth Sensitive ^W! 21:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I was talking to Ster when he came out of left field to sucker punch me. --Sir Sonny Corleone ^{RRF CRF DORIS Hunt!} 21:39, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Fine - be the better person and drop it first without the flaming and drama. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 21:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm not talking to him now so obviously I stopped. I don't have a problem with backing down. --Sir Sonny Corleone ^{RRF CRF DORIS Hunt!} 21:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Good. Let's keep it like that. --Darth Sensitive ^W! 21:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

another editor removed my notice about Christmas Tree Dead Pool and I tend to agree with his reasons. However, a notice about Christmas Tree Dead Pool arguably has as strong a claim to be in this template as Lexicon:Infection. Should the notice about Lexicon:Infection stay up? Should I put my notice back up? --S.Wiers ^X:00_{x-mas tree dead pool} 18:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to think that the Lexicon is simply a more important and more interesting-to-everyone kind of thing than this christmas tree event (no offense), but I understand that my introducing and running the thing may be clouding my judgement in the matter. What do other people think?--'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 18:33, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

New purpose

I'm restoring this on {{Navigation}}, but protecting it in as anything that goes under our most visible page (the main page). The idea now is to only place promotion bids, policy discussions, policy votings and approved policy notices. In resume: everything that can change how the wiki is managed, and thus is of concern and requires the input of the biggest part of the community we can get. --Matthew Fahrenheit ^YRC☺T☺+1 21:57, 16 June 2007 (BST)

first of all, the biiiiiigggg comannounce template is awful, do you have any sense of design at all ? Second, the community should use the Community Portal, instead of relying in this box for info. I am running late, but i am going to take that away as soon as i return home. --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 23:17, 16 June 2007 (BST)

now i remember that reverting this was just a click away... and somehow i managed to not be running late. hurray. and now, pizza!!! :D --People's Commissar Hagnat ^{[cloned] [mod]} 23:28, 16 June 2007 (BST)

Community Announcements

Does this page still need to be kept updated, or has it been totally superceded by Template:CommunityAnnouncements? --Toejam 23:14, 25 June 2007 (BST)