A few hours ago, a year after the discussion on this list about editor
retention and communication,[1] email notification[2] of edits to
watchlisted pages has been enabled on all Wikimedia projects — at last!
Until yesterday, only 16 lucky content projects, including Commons (plus
a bunch of
Please, do not enable this feature by default. A lot of people do not
like 10 emails/day in their mailbox, and I have such amount of
watchlisted edits even in smaller projects like Meta.
—vvv
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
A few hours ago, a
- Original Message -
From: Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Watchlist email notifications enabled on all
wikis
Please, do not enable this feature by default.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote:
Please, do not enable this feature by default. A lot of people do not
like 10 emails/day in their mailbox, and I have such amount of
watchlisted edits even in smaller projects like Meta.
A daily digest would be cool.
Automatically adjusting the email frequency might be a worthwhile feature
to strive for:
If an editor hasn't logged in within the past 30 days, revert to monthly
digest, that way we don't drive editors away with the email frequency.
-Stephanie
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:07 PM, John Vandenberg
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 00:05, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Please, do not enable this feature by default. A lot of people do not
like 10 emails/day in their mailbox, and I have such amount of
watchlisted edits even in smaller projects like Meta.
Then turn off the feature.
New
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 00:05, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
New users dont know how to turn it on.
...and I've just had a little trouble myself. I looked under the
'watchlist' tab of my prefs. It isn't there. It's under 'user
profile'.
Hmmm.
Bodnotbod
On 27 April 2012 22:27, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
The only inconvenience is that both new and old users still have to manually
enable the feature on their preferences, while it would make more sense to
make it opt-out, as for user talk: users want to disable it only on the
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi everyone,
As you may be aware, Wikimedia has updated its Terms of Use. This updated
version will become effective on May 25,
