Platonides wrote:
"Anthony" wrote:
Turning on email notification when you get a message on your talk page would be a good solution in the mean time. In fact, for some people (like myself) who don't check their Wikipedia talk page that much either, it might even be a better solution.
I believe this email notification has already been coded up. What would be the problems with turning it on? Can someone be specific here and answer exactly why it hasn't been turned on? How many additional servers would be needed to support it?
I guess the problem of email notification could be a lot of emails being sent. But email notification wouldn't be necessary. When the Single User Login gets implemented, it'd be easy to have a second "You have new messages" text.
It's actually closer than that:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API#userinfo_.2F_ui
Parameters: uiprop=isblocked|hasmsg|rights|groups, uioptions=<opt name>|...