On 11/12/11 6:45 PM, Platonides wrote:
> When users get a message on their commons talk page, they will receive
> an email informing of that.
In my personal experience, that's only true for the *first* message. If
you don't check Talk after that, then you don't get any more emails.
In my case, the first message was a welcome. I didn't need to see the
welcome. My guess is other more casual users don't bother either, so
they won't see any deletion messages.
I suggested there be a special flag to force the sending of a message.
AFAICT, that's also the gist of jeblad's:
Add a magic word to enforce "enotif" on specific templates and the
whole process shold be a lot more easy to handle than today. [sic]
I'm also suggesting we add phone numbers and SMS. Although I live on
email, I've found the younger set live on their phones a bit more than
we expected designing SMS long ago.
> That requires that they provided an email address on registration (it's
> optional) and verified it (really easy).
> Also, they shouldn't have the preference disabled (I think it has been
> on by default for new users since several years).
>
>
>> An email that pages have changed would be good. Wikia sends it weekly.
>
> That would be email notification for all watchlist items. The load
> produced by enabling such option could be pondered.
Sure, but the old default was to add each page you created to your
watch list. My guess is there are few folks with massive watchlists.
> Note they can also subscribe to an RSS feed of their watchlist (this
> probably needs more publcity).
>
Yeah, I'd never heard of it.
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