https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33880

--- Comment #6 from Michael Jennings <[email protected]> 2012-09-19 16:04:38 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> To be honest, I can't conceive of a situation where you would ever want an
> address in this list to receive their own edits.

Maybe you can't.  That doesn't mean no one else can either.  :-)

> The two use-cases I can see for this feature are:
> 
> 1) Admin users, who want to see all edits made to the wiki.  Clearly they 
> don't
> want to see their own as they already know about them.

I assure you, I do.  :-)

> If you can come up with a use case then I'm happy for someone to modify the
> setting to allow for both scenarios, but if only one scenario is supported 
> then
> skipping the person who made the edit is definitely the most sensible 
> approach. 

The most sensible approach is always, in my opinion, that of least surprise.  A
variable named "users notified of ALL changes" should either do what its name
says it does or be renamed (to $wgUsersNotifiedOnEveryoneElsesChanges,
perhaps).

The optimal solution may be to have a per-user setting for "notify me of my own
edits" and allow both watchlists and $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges to respect
this setting.

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