On 01/10/2013 05:30 PM, Chris McMahon wrote:
Facebook has a really nice design along those lines, which I think we can emulate. See these screenshots <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1ZRqi7bo8W-HgzJ_riskqFMTIPBIlWDmwMURbmnvr19w/edit#slide=id.g2ee45dc7_1_58> in our best practices deck.I am starting to think that the "<page> was linked" should not be subject to individual notifications at all.
I thought about this, and at first I thought I agreed. But I actually think it could be interesting for main namespace pages I created, especially recent ones. If it's mainspace->mainspace (a link *on* an article *to* an article) and there is a time-based filter ("links to articles you created within the last 30 days"), I would probably use it.
Pages you created in the past being linked by others are a different kind of interaction that is not human-to-human, but more akin to, for example, someone visiting a blog page that you wrote some time in the past.
I'd say it's somewhere in between, since writing something (the link is just one aspect) using your page is different from just visiting it.
Matt Flaschen