A lot of these are probably due to the transluding bug, when a link gets added to a page, it also gets added to all the transluding pages. A fix has been applied and being reviewed, this will reduce the number of unnecessary notification
From the email conversation on this topic in the last few days, looks like we have come up with some very good ideas to tackle this potentially spammy notification. Hopefully we will make it a much better notification in the coming development cycles, :)
On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> They are continuing to come in right now, at the rate of about 3 a minute.
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> And on pages that aren't new in any way.
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> On Jan 10, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> It is a good thing for us to dog food our own products. :)
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>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Brandon Harris <bharris@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> I have gotten over 55 of these in the past half hour. Seriously.
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