Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-28949015-20170326170209/@comment-4812386-20170327050635

Users have been trained by ads and overemphasis to ignore text in big, bold, red lettering. It's no use trying, even flashy blinking text will get automatically ignored. They'd rather take a screenshot and open an image in MS Paint than actually read the text...

Fortunately, there are still two effective ways to emphasize text. The first is using a regular text font; the second is italics. The new MediaWiki:Uploadtext uses both — talk about effectiveness!

I don't know what to do about the abuse filter warnings though. A modal JavaScript popup would work. I don't like that idea, but users aren't noticing the warnings right now and modal popups would definitely get them noticed. I don't know if it's worth adding more JavaScript customization to the wiki.

The previous notice was this:

Make sure to change the destination filename (below) to something descriptive!