---- Original Message ----- > From: "Strainu" <[email protected]> > To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:32:09 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification sender > 2012/1/3 Erik Moeller <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Dalton > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why do email notifications from Wikipedia have the sender as > >> "MediaWiki Mail"? Most Wikipedia users probably don't know what > >> "MediaWiki" is. I suggest it be changed to "Wikipedia" or > >> "Wikipedia > >> notifications" or something like that. > > > > I agree with the {{SITENAME}} suggestion, and would prefer to omit > > "Mail". (The fact that it's an email is self-evident.) > > I wouldn't be so fast in leaving only the sitename as sender name - a > mail from "Wikipedia" would raise my (manual) spam alarms, just like > emails from the "Federal Bureau of Investigations" or from "[X] Bank".
For my part, I believe that "Mediawiki Mail" is proper, as it's mail *generated by the named program* (note: not "site"). If you reverse it to Wikipedia/media, though, it's from the site, not the program, and the expected usage indeed changes not to include "Mail". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
