The standard one is pretty indiscriminate - a single line of text for all users. The Commons one is a sophisticated system with categorised messages, opt-out by topic, etc.; it's more or less a wholesale replacement for the previous one.
I'm hoping to try and get a version up and running on enwiki at some point; currently wondering how best to approach the proposal.
Andrew.
On Saturday, August 17, 2013, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
On 08/17/2013 04:35 AM, Benoît Evellin wrote:
> Hello
>
> A good way to engage active editors into the community life is to use
> Notifications. I hope the next development will permit to post
> notifications about community life or wiki projects updates, or much more!
I agree that notifications should be important in keeping people engaged
(more so once there are useful cross-wiki notifications like "You
Commons image was used on the Paris French Wikipedia article").
Some of this (e.g. newsletters) is intended to be in the scope of Flow
(eventually), if I understand right.
> There is a tool on Commons which displays a message on the watch list.
I believe there is a version of this on every wiki (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Watchlist_notice). It looks
like Commons has some enhancement (maybe using site JS), but I wasn't
easily able to find details.
Matt Flaschen
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