On Aug 21, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Benoît Evellin wrote:

Thank you Fabrice and the Echo team.
The deployment is a success on French Wikipedia. A (power) user write on the village pump a good summary of the POV of our community about Notifications:
"As I see the enthusiasm about this feature, I think us, old users who usually doesn't accept novelty, have changed our minds for the first time" (the exact translation is quite difficult tl do).
This is great. This is an achievement :-)
Benoît

Merci, Benoît. We owe a lot of this success to you, as our first non-english community champion for Notifications -- and a pioneer in wiki innovation. It's always a pleasure to be working with you!

Le 21 août 2013 21:44, "Maryana Pinchuk" <mpinchuk@wikimedia.org> a écrit :

Hooray, Echo! :) Great work, everyone – it's wonderful to see this feature on more wikis. We're hoping to release Echo to Wikimedia mobile sites soon, and it'll be extremely useful to have it be available on more than just mobile enwiki.

Yay, mobile team!

Can't wait to get my notifications on the go … in my native French language ! :)

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc@wikimedia.org> wrote:

This is great. Thanks for including the stats links Fabrice.

--tomasz

You're welcome, thanks to Dario for getting them done so quickly.

It's interesting to note how much people are playing with Mentions, which represented over 25% of French activity in their first hours …

Compare that to these english wiki metrics:

http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/enwiki-features

On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:26 PM, Steven Walling wrote:

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I'm happy to announce that we just released Notifications on our first non-english Wikipedias today!

The Echo extension is now deployed on the French, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish Wikipedias, where users seem to be enjoying some of the tool's new features, such as the Mention and Thanks notifications.

Yay! This is awesome news.

Notifications: the sleeper success of summer 2013. :)

Oh shucks, Steven, you're too kind … : )

On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Oona Castro wrote:

Thank you, Fabrice, Benny Situ and EE team!
"Thanks" feature is still being translated so I could not check it properly in my tests. But I was trying to check whether gender variations will apply. If we say "this user has thanked you", no variation would apply. But if we use "thank you", then it does: Obrigado (for male) and Obrigada (for female), being the variation applied for the gender of the user who is thanking (and not the one being thanked).
In the translation tool, I didn't find where/how to provide the 2 options.

Oona

Oona, thanks so much for all that you and Henrique did to make this happen so quickly, you guys were awesome!

For now, I would recommend that you try to come up with a gender-neutral translation for the Thanks notification, as a lot of users do not disclose their gender. We can look into adding gender-specific messaging later this year, but will still need a generic solution for 'undisclosed' users, sadly.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm happy to announce that we just released Notifications on our first
> non-english Wikipedias today!
>
> The Echo extension is now deployed on the French, Hungarian, Polish,
> Portuguese and Swedish Wikipedias, where users seem to be enjoying some of
> the tool's new features, such as the Mention and Thanks notifications.
>
> Our next major deployment to another half-dozen non-English Wikipedias will
> take place on Sep. 17, as outlined in this proposed Echo release plan:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Release_Plan_2013
>
> We're delighted to bring these new features to a broader community and would
> like to take this opportunity to thank all the folks who made this
> deployment possible.
>
> First off, kudos to Benny Situ for his fine development work on this final
> leg of the Notifications project, as well as Erik Benhardson, Matthias
> Mullie and Dario Taraborelli for their invaluable support. Next, my deepest
> appreciation to our Community team for their gracious advice and help in
> orchestrating this multi-site release: Philippe Beaudette, Maggie Dennis,
> Jan Eissfeld, Sherry Snyder, Keegan Peterzell, Patrick Earley and Anna
> Koval.
>
> Last but not least, we are very grateful to our community champions for each
> language, including: Benoît Evellin, Cantons de l'Est, Nou Nouill, Tisza
> Gergő, Tamas Meszoly, Bartosz Dziewoński, Tar Lócesilion, Oona Castro,
> Henrique Andrade and Jan Ainali -- to name but a few.
>
> Thank you all for going out of your way to bring notifications to these
> communities. It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with each of you,
> and I look forward to more collaborations in the future.
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions about this new release. Enjoy
> the new features!
>
>
> Fabrice, on behalf of the E2 team
>
>
> P.S.: You can now track notifications activity for each language on these
> dashboards, which refresh daily, thanks to Dario:
>
> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/frwiki-features
> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/huwiki-features
> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/plwiki-features
> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/ptwiki-features
> http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/dashboards/svwiki-features
>
> _______________________________
>
> Fabrice Florin
> Product Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
>
>

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