| Title | Wiki Wide Notice |
| Date | 20-Sep-2006 18:31:32 EEST |
| JSPWiki version | 2.4.53 |
| Submitter | Jerome Duprez |
| Idea Category | AdministrationIdea |
| Reference | |
| Idea Status | NewIdea |
Please add the possibility to configure a small wiki message to be displayed on each page. Usage:
- Welcome message ("Welcome to the HumourWiki, what do you think of this one?")
- Warning message ("This wiki site is obsolate, please go to the new URL...")
- Information ("The end of the month is looming, please fill your Activity Report")
- ...
Today I have a suboptimal form of this feature, using the LeftMenu, but the location is not ideal. I also put a welcome/warning message on the Main page, but most people bookmark other pages directly, so they skip my notice. I am not sure where to locate this text though: top of the page (above page name), top of the content (under the "trail"),...
The way that I view it:
- the message would be the content of a spécific Wiki page (e.g., Header or Footer, following the model of LeftMenu or LeftMenuFooter)
- It would be displayed in a dedicated location provided by the default template, like LeftMenu, somewhere above the current page's text
- Being a Wiki page, it would enable to display text, links, image, comment box, plugin result, whatever...
- It would also enable the site administaror to specify an ACL for the message text itself
- being a Wiki page complies with the Idea Use Wiki Markup for Administration policy.