Christopher Mahan wrote:
--- Rowan Collins
<rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We already have it: Edit the User_talk page of a
user, even one
only
known by an IP address; the message "You have new messages" will
appear on their screen until they follow the link. It is indeed
very
encouraging as a new user (I must start doing it more myself...)
:)
Well, i was thinking of putting the message itself. Few newbies will
click on "You have a new message" because that sounds like spam.
Maybe not spam, but many adverts on the Internet say something like "You
have new messages" to get naïve people to click on them.
I generally quite like the idea, and I think it would have a lot of very
useful and productive uses. However, I would very much like to see a
"message log" - maybe something like [[User:Timwi/Received messages]]
and [[User:Timwi/Sent messages]]. Of course, those should be
wiki-editable, so the user can manually delete them or move them to an
archive page if they think it's getting too long.
Timwi
And what about "User:Timwi wrote you a message" instead of "You have new
messages"
It removes anonymity, sounds less like spam and is more informative
(requires probably a little tech tweak I suppose though :-))
ant