Thanks Fabrice, this sounds very good, especially getting custom
notifications for commons events would increase the value of echo over
existing means like watchlists a lot.
Daniel
On Oct 3, 2013 4:52 PM, "Fabrice Florin" <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi folks,
We'd like to give you a heads-up about the upcoming release of
Notifications (1) on Wikimedia Commons in coming weeks.
This software tool will inform users about new activity that affects them
on Commons, in a unified way: for example, it will let you know when you
have new talk page messages, edit reverts, thanks, mentions or links -- and
is designed to augment (rather than replace) the watchlist. The Wikimedia
Foundation's editor engagement team developed this tool (code-named 'Echo')
earlier this year, to help users contribute more productively to MediaWiki
projects.
Notifications were first released on the English Wikipedia in April 2013,
and have now been successfully deployed on dozens of other wikis in
different languages, including the Dutch, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish,
Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese Wikipedias, to name
but a few. Community response has been very positive so far, across
languages and regions. Users are responding particularly well to social
features such as Mentions and Thanks, which enable them to communicate more
effectively than before. Learn more in our recent blog post (2).
We're now getting ready to bring Notifications to Wikimedia Commons and
other sister sites, and are aiming for an October 22 deployment for our
first release. This release will include some basic features shared by all
other sites. Our multimedia team is also considering developing a few
special notifications for Commons (e.g.: 'Your file was used in an
article'), and we will start a community discussion about these ideas after
our first release.
Please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments
about this new tool in this Village Pump thread:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Notifications_on_Co…
Thanks, and stay tuned for more.
Fabrice
(1)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)
(2)
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/01/notifications-launch-on-more-wikipedia…
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