Hello everyone,

I am happy to announce that we just deployed the first release of Notifications today on the English Wikipedia!

Please try it out and let us know right away if you see any bugs or issues -- or have comments or suggestions.

Notifications should start appearing in a red badge next to your name on en.wikipedia.org very soon -- as well as on your archive page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications

Before you test Notifications, we recommend that you go to your preferences page, and enable all the notifications you want (be sure to check email notifications, which are mostly 'opt-in' for current users):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo

For general tips on how Notifications work, check our FAQ page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ

For more tips on how to test notifications, check this testing page:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing

Once you've tested Notifications, please join the discussion on this talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Editor_engagement/Echo

You are also welcome to post technical bugs directly on Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=Echo

Many thanks to Kaldari, Benny, Luke, Vibha, Oliver, Dario, Brandon, Steven, Matthew, S Page, Ori, Aaron, Asher, Howie, Terry, Erik and everyone else who made this product possible!

Enjoy,


Fabrice and the E2 Team


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Fabrice Florin
Product Manager, Editor Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation