I don't think limiting it to only new pages, or only for users who have made less than X pages, or other "mysterious" tweaks makes sense. The behavior has to be obvious to the user. The user has to know why they do or do not get the notification. The solution I favor is introducing a preference to allow the user to turn off this type of notification (or alternately opt in to it). I think most of us are in agreement on this, but I haven't heard from Vibha (who was against this idea previously). Otherwise, I would favor just removing the notification entirely (rather than making its behavior mysterious).
Ryan Kaldari
On 1/11/13 12:05 AM, Benny Situ wrote:
A lot of these are probably due to the transluding bug, when a link gets added to a page, it also gets added to all the transluding pages. A fix has been applied and being reviewed, this will reduce the number of unnecessary notification
From the email conversation on this topic in the last few days, looks like we have come up with some very good ideas to tackle this potentially spammy notification. Hopefully we will make it a much better notification in the coming development cycles, :)
On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org mailto:bharris@wikimedia.org> wrote:
They are continuing to come in right now, at the rate ofabout 3 a minute.
And on pages that aren't new in any way.On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org
mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
It is a good thing for us to dog food our own products. :)
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Brandon Harris
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I have gotten over 55 of these in the past half hour. Seriously. <Screen Shot 2013-01-10 at 10.08.16 PM.png>
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