Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/Communicate local and global announcements through notifications rather than banners/Proposal
Problem: Global and local announcements are frequent, intrusive, sometimes irrelevant to the reader, and cause layout shifts.
Proposed solution: Allow for local and global announcements to be communicated through the notification system where it makes sense
Who would benefit: Everyone using Wikipedia.
More comments: This proposal is to allow for communications to happen through the notification system where it makes sense and not to replace banners. Communicating announcements through notifications would allow users to read them at their own time, without interrupting other activities. Furthermore, since Wikipedia doesn't overload users with notifications, and it's the user itself who clicks the bell icon to see the notification, it's possible that announcements communicated through notifications may be read with more attention than usual, therefore increasing their effectiveness.
