https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31928
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Bug #: 31928
Summary: Enable users to set their preferences to receive
watchlist notifications regardless of whether the page
has been visited
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
AFAIK there is not way for a user to set their preferences so that they
continue to receive e-mail notifications of changes to the pages on their
watchlist, even if they do not visit the page after the most recent
notification.
When I get notifications, they are accompanied by messages like this: "There
will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless you visit this
page." and this: "Note that additional changes to the page "User talk:Sue
Gardner" will not result in any further notifications, until you have logged in
and visited the page."
This makes me crazy: it's terribly user-unfriendly. I have a lot of pages that
I monitor, and every time I receive a notification I worry that if I don't
visit the page afterwards while logged in, I will never be notified again. (For
example, I am not logged-in on my phone. If I receive a notification, I will
often visit the page immediately from my phone, but since I am not logged in,
the system will not realize I've done that. So I need to remember to visit
*again*, from a logged-in computer.)
The system seems to have a strong built-in assumption that I do not want to be
notified, and it requires me to continually reaffirm, by visiting the page
while logged-in, that I do indeed want to continue receiving notifications. I
think this is the wrong bias. If I've put a page on my watchlist, and requested
e-mail notifications of changes to the page, I think I've made my preference
clear, and shouldn't need to continually reaffirm it.
I would love to see this changed, such that once I have requested e-mail
notifications of changes to pages on my watchlist, I will continue to receive
notifications of all changes to all pages on my watchlist until I request
otherwise.
Thanks!
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