https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45022
--- Comment #8 from Nemo <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #7) > Perhaps you are not aware of the magnitude of this - on active projects such > as > the english wikipedia, email notifications per EDIT to a watched page can > mean > hundreds or thousands of emails per user per day. Of course I do. But this is not about Wikipedia, that's bug 38796. > When it was accidentally turned > on by default when the option was initially added, it really did back up the > mail queue [...] It didn't at all. > > If there were a way to enable this only for new users with a clear note in > the > emails how they can turn it off when it is no longer useful to them, that > would > probably be fine, but as it is the current infrastructure does not support > such > fine tuning, to my knowledge. Again, that's bug 38796, which includes such requirements (and yes, only en.wiki complained back then). On normal wikis (which arguably includes all Wikipedia but en.wiki, apparently) not even the most active editors can have thousands of watchlisted pages edited in the course of a day before they can go to the preferences and disable this when the volume gets excessive. The enotif_body has clear instructions sending people to the preferences; the amount of mail received is always gradual so the 99.99 % of users will receive a very small amount of emails and disable them if they wish when it gets too much because they got more active and have more watchlisted pages, or whatever. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
