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

--- Comment #7 from Mark Clements (HappyDog) <[email protected]> 2012-09-19 
21:11:48 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (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.  :-)

True.  But as it is you who are arguing the case for inclusion, I would have
thought that you would have been able to provide at least one such example!

> > 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.  :-)

Why?  Perhaps if you explained your use-case (and, perhaps, why the workaround
in comment 5 is insufficient) then you might have a chance of convincing others
of that there was some basis to your request.

> > 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).
> 

If you are arguing that the variable should be renamed, then please log a new
bug for that.  I expect, for backwards-compatibility reasons, it will be closed
as WONTFIX, but no harm trying.  It won't be me who decides, and I don't have a
strong opinion on this.

> 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.

I think there is a case for two new UI settings:

* E-mail me about changes to all pages (not just my watchlist)
* E-mail me about every single change (not just the first)

In either case, you should not be e-mailed your own changes, and it would need
to be something that could be enabled/disabled for the wiki via a config
setting (you wouldn't want it enabled on something the size of Wikipedia, for
example!).

However, this is also something that should be logged as a new bug (if it
hasn't been already).

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