In case you haven't seen, User:Rillke on Commons has implemented a (default-on!) gadget that makes it possible to subscribe to notifications of different types, e.g. policy changes, new features, etc. These are shown as watchlist banners and upon login.
Here's a screenshot of the "subscription" interface: http://i.imgur.com/gdImENz.png
IMO that type of gadget lends supports to the notion of shooting for a subscription model to be ultimately integrated with Echo so that users can get standard read-once notifications about things they care about while keeping the core UI clutter-free.
Erik
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Thanks, Erik.
Interesting development.
We can take a closer look at this idea once we get further along with high priority tasks like HTML Email and Cross-wiki notifications.
We should also discuss when and how to ramp up wishlist features like these for Echo, now that the notifications team is starting to move on to other projects.
To be continued,
Fabrice
On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
In case you haven't seen, User:Rillke on Commons has implemented a (default-on!) gadget that makes it possible to subscribe to notifications of different types, e.g. policy changes, new features, etc. These are shown as watchlist banners and upon login.
Here's a screenshot of the "subscription" interface: http://i.imgur.com/gdImENz.png
IMO that type of gadget lends supports to the notion of shooting for a subscription model to be ultimately integrated with Echo so that users can get standard read-once notifications about things they care about while keeping the core UI clutter-free.
Erik
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Hi design folks,
2013/6/21 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org
In case you haven't seen, User:Rillke on Commons has implemented a (default-on!) gadget that makes it possible to subscribe to notifications of different types, e.g. policy changes, new features, etc. These are shown as watchlist banners and upon login.
Here's a screenshot of the "subscription" interface: http://i.imgur.com/gdImENz.png
IMO that type of gadget lends supports to the notion of shooting for a subscription model to be ultimately integrated with Echo so that users can get standard read-once notifications about things they care about while keeping the core UI clutter-free.
Following up on this : the documentation is at [1]
On top of the topic feature mentioned by Erik, Rillke's watchlist notices are loaded with other cool features, like built-in i18n, scheduling, geotargeting (!), filtering per usergroup/browser/OS/language
And Rillke put together a kick-ass wizard to create such notices [2] - the best way to walk into the above mentioned features.
(and the wizard itself is i18n using the Translate extension ^__^)
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist_messages [2] < https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Watchlist_messages/Wiza...
Hope that helps,