On 03/21/2013 11:57 AM, Benoît Evellin wrote:
On English Wikipedia, email notifications enabled by default, right ? How did you do that ? Is there a good feedback from new users ? Do whey complain about flooding ?
Summary of the below - There are a lot of preferences controlling this, but as far as I can tell, they're all the same for enwiki and frwiki. The only one I see any variation for is wgEnotifMinorEdits, and even for that, it's false both of those two. Also, I think the only one true for an editor who does nothing is emails for changes to their user talk.
If you're sure there's a difference between en and fr for a particular scenario, reply with the details.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions . Look for a few things in particular:
* Preferences containing enotif (email notification), one of which is enotifwatchlistpages ("E-mail notification to editor if there are changes to a page the editor has on his watchlist"). * Watchlist preferences ** watchcreations - "Add pages the user creates and files they upload to their watchlist". True globally ** watchdefault - "Add pages the user edits to their watchlist". I think this is currently false globally (probably since it piles up fast for even a semi-active editor). I believe English Wikipedia is considering setting this true for new editors. There are also similar ones for moving (watchmoves) and deleting (watchdeletion) a page.
To check what the defaults are on WMF sites, see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=bl... and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=bl...
Finally, for the default default (for any MediaWiki site), see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=includes...
For all of these, case-insensitive search for enotif should find everything.
Matt Flaschen