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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>