Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:55 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread David Gerard
On 19 April 2011 07:55, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve the user

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/4/18 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller sites

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Samuel Klein
it's just not enabled on larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220. This is definitely needed. (I remember the debates about implementing this at all when it was first under development; I am quite glad that it

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Sage Ross
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: We have a range of ideas about how e-mail could be used for retention/engagement Here's one more for the idea pile... If the operations reasons for not mass-enabling email notifications can't be overcome (or even if they

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28026 which could probably be fixed without too much effort. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-18 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I wouldn't check it more than once every few days. There's been a lot of talk