The request for an additional notification-type, is
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57517 (Notifications for
"page patrolled" are marked and linked identically to "page reviewed")
(I'm not sure if it was originally intended for both, or just for page
curation?)

Dario makes a good point that the notification could be a lot clearer.
Currently it only links to the Page and to the username of the
Reviewer/Patroller. It should also link to either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/patrolled_pages
(actually, those both probably need better targets to send newcomers to...
:-/ Perhaps that's the holdup?)


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's also worth noting that "reviewed" may not be okay. So, if people
> patrol pages without using New Pages Feed, it does not review it: the
> 'reviewed'  notification instead means 'Oliver has come along and checked
> the tagging was appropriate and now he can remove this item from the list
> so it stops clogging the tubes'. The result is that the new user can
> receive, in order, "YOUR ARTICLE IS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION IT WILL BE
> EXT-ER-MI-NAAATED!' and 'thanks for the article!'.
>
> On 11 September 2014 12:00, Dario Taraborelli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I received this morning an Echo notification for a new page that I
>> created:
>>
>>
>>      Meadow Fire <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Fire> was
>> reviewed byTillman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tillman>.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I never paid much attention to page review notifications ( I haven't
>> created many new pages since Echo was deployed) but it strikes me that
>> these messages do not convey any meaningful information to the recipient:
>>
>> * they refer to a "new page review" process that most new editors are
>> definitely not aware of (when creating a page we don't tell the page
>> creator: your page will be reviewed") and don't provide any link to it.
>> * they mention a moderation action that the user will have trouble
>> interpreting (is this good? Is this bad? Am I supposed to do something?
>> Should I talk to the reviewer that the notification links to? What happens
>> now to the page that I created?)
>> * if the notification is not meant to be actionable but is supposed to
>> work as a positive feedback signal, it's poorly designed for this purpose
>> in its current form.
>>
>> I'd like to hear thoughts from this list on the intended purpose of this
>> notification and how we can improve it so the recipient understands what
>> s/he is being notified about.
>>
>> Dario
>>
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