Hi all,
I've been playing around with Echo on
MediaWiki.org and noticed that in my
preferences I can configure a number of different notifications. (See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo)
I've also tested the User Right notifications that were just deployed and
whilst you receive an email when you have a user right *added *to your
account, you don't currently get one when a user right is *removed *from
your account.
That's probably an oversight, but from what I've been told the option to
opt out from any email notifications intentionally isn't available so as to
reduce the number of preferences for users to configure. Another
justification is that a user is unlikely to have their user rights changed
too often, so email traffic should be minimal.
This seems reasonable, but for future notifications, how are we going to
decide whether something is worth a preference or not? I'm thinking that
anything that technically affects your editing, e.g. a notification that
you've been blocked or renamed (if Echo supports that in the future) would
be something that probably shouldn't be opt-out-able.
Can anyone think of any other notifications that should not be opt-out-able
(or does anyone think that all notifications should be individually
opt-out-able?)
--
Thehelpfulone
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone