https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54609
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Bug ID: 54609
Summary: Recent changes notification fails vast majority of the
time
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Recent changes
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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My email inbox suggests that, between Sep. 4 and Sep. 9, I received 36 emails
about changes to meta Talk:Privacy_Policy. That's carefully separating multiple
emails that end up in the same gmail conversation view, which is not common but
happens. I've checked spam filters as well.
Based on the revision history page, during the same time period (specifically,
counting from the revision I received the first notification on the 4th to the
last revision I received a notification about on the 9th) there were 170 edits
to the page.
That's a 79% failure rate.
This is consistent with the results I get from other pages in meta. Similarly,
casual conversation around the office suggests I'm not the only person with
this problem, and that email notifications are widely treated as unreliable.
Proposed solutions:
1. Make email delivery reliable. I think this is the preferred solution, as I'm
a big believer that a key time management and stress reduction method is to
reduce the number of inboxes [http://lifehacker.com/5364596/], and email
notification is the only way to do this with a Mediawiki workflow (especially
in the WMF context, with 1,000 different wikis to follow, meaning 1,000
watchlists to follow.)
2. Turn off email delivery (and hide the preference).
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