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The "new message" button opens the "New Talk Page Message" dialog. This dialog works similarly to Wikipedia's built-in "new section" tool on talk pages, however you type the contents in standard WikiText in the box that appears. To preview your message, click the preview button situated to the top-right
A new notifications tool was released on the English Wikipedia on April 30, 2013, to help better inform users of activity that affects them (related announcement).The introduction of this new notifications system included the removal of the orange notifications bar (often referred to as the "orange bar of doom/death" or OBOD).
The alert rang for 10 seconds and displayed a message notifying phone users that no action was needed in response to the test but users from the Three network, one of the largest in the UK ...
The alert was sent at 8:08 a.m. Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time. [26] People in Hawaii reported seeing the alert on their smartphones. Many screenshots of the push alert were shared on social media platforms, such as Twitter. [27] [28] The alert read, in all capital letters: [29] BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER.
An example of a Wireless Emergency Alert on an Android smartphone, indicating a Tornado Warning in the covered area. Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) and, prior to that, as the Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN), [1] is an alerting network in the United States designed to disseminate emergency alerts to cell phones using Cell ...
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The alert was issued for Salem and Cumberland counties in New Jersey. In a statement by the New Jersey State Police, it was a test message, intended for a small group of emergency management personnel who were participating in the test. Due to a coding error, the message was publicly broadcast. This would happen again, in July 2022. [109]
When the button was clicked by any user, the countdown would reset for every user. [8] The button could only be pressed once by each unique Reddit account created before the event started on 1 April. [9] There was also a cumulative count of all unique users who had clicked the button since its launch. [10] The Button was a light blue color. [11]