Sure, and, if someone is blocked then the blocking admin should be leaving a note. It's great if we assume that admins will always do so, albeit an unnecessary workflow created by software deficiencies. 'Expected' does not, also, necessarily mean 'instantly visible'; things like autopatrolled are rather silent in displaying whether you have them.
On 27 March 2013 16:47, Isarra Yos <zhorishna@gmail.com> wrote:
Aye, its a useful notification, rather like a notice that a page they care about has been moved is useful, but not something that should be that important. If a rights change is unexpected and they need the briefing then the admin/crat should really be giving them a more personal message about it anyway to explain the situation, and if it is expected, well, its like any other change on the wiki.
On 27/03/2013 10:32, Oliver Keyes wrote:
No, enwp is a project where *getting* userrights isn't meant to be important - in the sense that userrights are not meant to be something that puts you further up the hierarchy than other users. That's very different from 'having additional buttons is not a big deal'.
If someone is given rollback because, hey, an admin has identified that they're useful and such and might benefit from it, it's highly beneficial for them to be poked and given a brief "so you've got this [link to rules about using it|new button now]". Otherwise we end up with situations where good-faith contributors get snarked for not following rules nobody informed them they had to, or for misusing tools they didn't necessarily understand were a privilege. At the same time, it's nice to have an actual ping of "your expertise has been recognised, good job".
On 27 March 2013 02:40, Isarra Yos <zhorishna@gmail.com> wrote:
User rights changes are important? I would think that would depend entirely on the project, and mww and enwp are two where such either at least isnt supposed to be a big deal, or where it really isnt in practice either.
Speaking of no big deal, I wonder if I can talk someone into making me a crat.
On 26/03/2013 18:55, Fabrice Florin wrote:
Hi TheHelpfulOne,
Thanks so much for testing Echo today, and for reporting on your experience with user rights!
I am also experiencing problems with the user right notification with this release, even though it worked well for me earlier. You should be getting notifications both when a user right is added and removed, as outlined in this feature requirement:
We will investigate this issue tomorrow. Thanks for bringing it up!
Regarding your other question about user preferences, each notification category can be set independently, as described here:
However, system notifications like user right changes cannot be dismissed, because we believe they are too important. Besides user rights, this also includes the welcome and get started messages in this first release.
The other notification where preferences are limited is 'talk page messages', which now can only be turned off for email notifications, not for web notifications (because we believe they are too important to dismiss on the web).
Please let us know if this general plan works for you, or if you recommend any changes. I am sure this issue will be discussed again once we deploy on en-wiki, but we are starting to freeze features so we can have our first release in early April. ;o)
Cheers,
Fabrice
On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:33 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote:
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I've been playing around with Echo on MediaWiki.org and noticed that in my preferences I can configure a number of different notifications. (See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo)
I've also tested the User Right notifications that were just deployed and whilst you receive an email when you have a user right added to your account, you don't currently get one when a user right is removed from your account.
That's probably an oversight, but from what I've been told the option to opt out from any email notifications intentionally isn't available so as to reduce the number of preferences for users to configure. Another justification is that a user is unlikely to have their user rights changed too often, so email traffic should be minimal.
This seems reasonable, but for future notifications, how are we going to decide whether something is worth a preference or not? I'm thinking that anything that technically affects your editing, e.g. a notification that you've been blocked or renamed (if Echo supports that in the future) would be something that probably shouldn't be opt-out-able.
Can anyone think of any other notifications that should not be opt-out-able (or does anyone think that all notifications should be individually opt-out-able?)
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