Strongly desired product. Great to see it finally here. Congrats to all
involved.

J

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've enjoyed finding some messages I never knew were there, such as a
> welcome message from two years ago on Basque Wikipedia, and a substantive
> reply I had missed on Wikinews for 4 months. It's refreshing for a new
> feature to make me immediately feel more connected to other volunteers.
> Well done!
> -Pete
> [[User:Peteforsyth]]
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Awesome news!!! I really appreciate this new feature.
> >
> > Sydney
> >
> > Sydney Poore
> > User:FloNight
> > Wikipedian in Residence
> > at Cochrane Collaboration
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Roan Kattouw <rkatt...@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building
> a
> > > cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other wikis
> > in
> > > the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set
> of
> > > wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on
> all
> > > wikis as a beta feature.
> > >
> > > You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link [2]
> > in
> > > the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the
> > > "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible
> > > through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner)
> > will
> > > now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have
> > > unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and
> see
> > > those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation on
> > > mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages
> at
> > > the
> > > time of this writing.
> > >
> > > Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta feature
> > on
> > > one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However,
> you
> > > only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications
> on a
> > > wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable
> the
> > > beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from
> the
> > > French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian
> Wiktionary
> > > even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact,
> if
> > > you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old
> > > notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske
> > > tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5].
> > >
> > > Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk page
> > on
> > > mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug,
> > please
> > > report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community
> liaisons
> > > Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and BenoƮt Evellin (Trizek) for their work on
> this
> > > over the past few months.
> > >
> > > --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
> > >
> > > [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> > > mediawiki.org
> > > [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab
> > > [3]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_notification.png
> > > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> > > [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> > > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> > > [7]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=Notifications
> > > [8] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
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