On 2/5/13 10:01 AM, Fabrice Florin wrote:
Given these criteria, the most promising ideas so far
appear to be
notifications about contributions (or contributors) to a page you
edited. We might also consider 'mark as useful' or 'feedback'
notifications for projects that seem likely to adopt these new
features, but those would have to be viewed as lower priority than the
contribution notifications. Other ideas may have to wait until future
releases, sadly.
Generating Echo events for every edit on Wikipedia for every editor of
every article (even if they are bundled or filtered to a certain group
of users) would quickly explode the database. It would also likely crash
the servers with massive numbers of expensive queries – for every edit,
we would have to look at all previous edits, and determine if those
editors (which could number in the thousands) should receive a
notification. Considering that we average more than 3 edits per second
and have limited processing power (saving edits already takes 30 seconds
or longer on long articles), I'm not sure this would be feasible. It
also overlaps with existing watchlist functionality. Of all the ideas
proposed, I think the contribution notifications are the least feasible
and the least useful. The 'mark edit as helpful' idea seems like the
best one to me so far, but would probably make more sense for E3 to
develop than E2 (so that they could experiment with different UX and A/B
test them).
Ryan Kaldari