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Notifications Project hub for the Notifications infrastructure and UI (code-name: Echo)
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Notifications (formerly known asEcho) is an engagement tool for Wikimedia and MediaWiki wikis to inform users about new activity in a unified way.It provides notifications to users of various events related to their account, including new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions, or links.It is designed to replace and/or augment existing notification systems on MediaWiki sites, as well as provide significantly more control to users as to how their notifications are handled, read, and deleted.The feature was initially developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Editor Engagement team as part of "MediaWiki needs a sane notification system" (phab:T34281), and their maintenance is currently the responsibility of theGrowth team.It was deployed to all Wikimedia wikis during 2013.
Seethe help page for notifications for the user-guide.
There are no future plans concerning these features.
Cross-wiki notifications are alive as a Beta on all wikis (T123570)
The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications (the two panels or flyouts) is unclear to some. The developers wanted feedback on2 possible sorting schemes so they can make this better (T123018). You can give feedback in any language.
The ongoing user-experience changes (the wording and design of each notification type) are most easily seenin this spreadsheet (or less detailed version atNotifications/Messages). More details atT114357.
Cross-wiki notifications are alive on Beta wikis (T123570)
The Collaboration team is concentrating on cross-wiki notifications and related improvements to the extension. A Beta Feature for cross-wiki notifications is planned.
Amore detailed overview is available on the talkpage; here are the main tasks:
What comments, what design ideas, and what technical concerns do you have? Please tell us on the linked tasks if you can.
The notifications badge has been split in two. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second badge/list (andFlow messages on the wikis using it). Pleasegive us feedback on which of the other existing notifications, should be moved into the second badge/list.
See also#Suggested new notification types below.
This new notifications system seeks to unify the delivery of interaction messages in MediaWiki core, through a common API that can provide a uniform interface for users. For a quick visual overview of this project, check theNotifications slides.
We aimed to solve these core problems:
Notifications was developed to provide these solutions:
Notifications will support several different user groups:
The first release focused onnew users, who need notifications more than power users. Specifically, we concentrated on some of the first notifications which a new user can receive after creating an account on Wikipedia. We also developed some features to support power users, but we initially emphasize notifications that can engage new users, who need this service most urgently. Anonymous, unregistered users will not receive notifications at this time.
 | This page isoutdated. It was written for an older version of MediaWiki and may not apply to the most recent version. If you have checked or updated this page and found the content to be suitable, please remove this notice. See thetalk page for a possible discussion on this. Last update: 2022 |
Here are the features in the current version, as of September 2015.
For more details, read the oldfeature requirements.
All now requested notifications has beengathered on Phabricator.
These new types of notifications have been proposed, or partially developed (in no particular order):