Notifications inform you of new activity that affects you on Wikipedia -- and let you take quick action.
Here is our 2013 release plan for theNotifications project (code-named 'Echo') and related tools.
The Wikimedia Foundation's core features team developed and released this new notification system in 2013, and it is now deployed on all Wikipedias and sister sites -- with very positive community response, as summed up inthis blog post. To learn more about Notifications, read thisFAQ page, thisproject hub and/orTesting page.
We have now completed this first release and core feature development has ended for this project. Going forward, any new features or notifications will be developed by teams that need them, based on thisdeveloper guide.
Here is a checklist of actions to consider for any release of Notifications on a new Wikipedia or MediaWiki site:
Discuss this release with your community, to let them know this tool is coming and invite volunteers to help with translations and other tasks on this list (seethis example of how we announced it on Meta-Wiki).
Test the user experience on Meta-Wiki to see if it behaves as expected (change your preferences to your language and send yourself a few web and email notifications).
Create a local version ofthis Notifications FAQ page and translate it in your language (please send us the URL, so we can link to it from the question marks in the tool).
Create a local version of this Notifications Project page and translate it in your language (this is less important than the help page, so do that afterwards).
Consider whether you need to make any special adjustments to notifications on your site (we recommend keeping the current settings in place, but you may be able to change some if needed).
Please contact us right away if your community seriously wishes to postpone deployment of Notifications. Though our plan is to deploy to most wiki sites, we may exclude a couple sites that have special needs, if explicitly requested by their communities, with a strong rationale for why this release needs to be postponed on their site.
