Thanks Fabrice, this sounds very good, especially getting custom notifications for commons events would increase the value of echo over existing means like watchlists a lot. Daniel On Oct 3, 2013 4:52 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > We'd like to give you a heads-up about the upcoming release of > Notifications (1) on Wikimedia Commons in coming weeks. > > This software tool will inform users about new activity that affects them > on Commons, in a unified way: for example, it will let you know when you > have new talk page messages, edit reverts, thanks, mentions or links -- and > is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia > Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo') > earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki > projects. > > Notifications were first released on the English Wikipedia in April 2013, > and have now been successfully deployed on dozens of other wikis in > different languages, including the Dutch, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, > Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese Wikipedias, to name > but a few. Community response has been very positive so far, across > languages and regions. Users are responding particularly well to social > features such as Mentions and Thanks, which enable them to communicate more > effectively than before. Learn more in our recent blog post (2). > > We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to Wikimedia Commons and > other sister sites, and are aiming for an October 22 deployment for our > first release. This release will include some basic features shared by all > other sites. Our multimedia team is also considering developing a few > special notifications for Commons (e.g.: 'Your file was used in an > article'), and we will start a community discussion about these ideas after > our first release. > > Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments > about this new tool in this Village Pump thread: > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Notifications_on_Commons > > Thanks, and stay tuned for more. > > Fabrice > > > > (1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications) > > (2) > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/01/notifications-launch-on-more-wikipedias/ > > > > _______________________________ > > Fabrice Florin > Product Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > >
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