https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70255

--- Comment #4 from Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Lokal_Profil from comment #3)
> Thanks. I've now done that and it clarified a bit. From this I instead
> conclude that:
> * message = anything triggered by Flow (or at least new posts on watched
> topics)
> * alerts = anything triggered by non-Flow (including messages left on the
> users talk page)
> * notifications = any of the above.

Yes, I believe that's accurate.

> If that is the case then alerts essentially become "system messages" (which
> is clearly distinguishable from notifications).

I would say that e.g. a mention is both an alert and a notification.  However,
I understand a literal translation of 'alert' may not work in all languages.

> Even so it would be good to have a clear definition of the three terms and
> how they differ from the Echo-team.

Can I clarify the above further?  Our team (Core Features) works on both Flow
and Echo.

> Exactly the same thing was an issue previously with the new Flow concepts
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67967

Suppression is not a new Flow concept.  It has existed for regular wikitext
pages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Suppression) for quite some
time.

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