Hi folks,
We just deployed a new version of Notifications (formerly called 'Echo') on MediaWiki.org.
Today's main new feature is 'bundling' [1] , which only sends a single notification about related events, to reduce information overload.
For example, if several users post messages on your talk page in a row, you only get one web notification: "Kaldari and 2 others posted on your talk page."
To test this feature, check out section 6 of this testing page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing
We've also started collecting our first metrics [2], tracking notifications events on this preliminary dashboard: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/echo/
More features coming soon. Our next deployment will be Tuesday morning.
Thanks to Benny, Dario and Kaldari for making these new features possible!
Enjoy,
Fabrice
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Bundling
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Metrics
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Hi guys,
We just deployed an updated version of Notifications today on MediaWiki.org.
Here are some of the new features in today's release: • Longer archive list (20 notifications instead of 10) • Larger 'More' button at end of archive page • User rights notification (now also links to log) • Internationalization tweaks (right-to-left fixes) • Updated preferences (to make it easier to use) • Removed dismiss feature (in flyout and archive) • Email bundling (deployed but not yet enabled)
For tips on how to test notifications on MediaWiki.org, check this testing page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing
In related news, Oliver and I have completed our first drafts of the notifications portal [1] and FAQ pages [2] on en-wiki.
Please let us know what you think. You are also welcome to post bugs on Bugzilla [3].
Our next deployment will be Thursday, Apr. 18th on MediaWiki.org, with the final feature set for our first release. If that deployment goes well, we plan to release our first 'minimum viable product' on the English Wikipedia the following Thursday, April 25, as outlined in our release plan [4].
We were not able to release the HTML Email feature this week, due to a number of last-minute issues. At this point, it seems unlikely that this feature will be included in our first release on en-wiki, but we aim to include it in the next release.
Enjoy,
Fabrice and the E2 Team
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_engagement/Echo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_engagement/Echo/FAQ
Note: these URLs will be moved to 'Wikipedia:Notifications' shortly.
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
[4] http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Hi folks,
We just deployed our first release candidate for Notifications today on MediaWiki.org.
Here are some of the new features in today's release: * 'Mark all as read' button on the flyout [1] * Question mark on archive page links to FAQ * Feedback link on archive page goes to user survey * Archive page highlights are less overwhelming * Preferences page has clearer layout and prompts * You can remove notifications from your toolbar if you want * Email address is now from no-reply-notifications@mediawiki.org (on enwiki, it will be no-reply-notifications@wikipedia.org) * Replies to that address no longer send scary bounce messages
Please let us know right away if you experience any serious issues for this near-final version. You are also welcome to post bugs on Bugzilla [2].
For tips on how to test notifications on MediaWiki.org, check this testing page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing
We plan to release this first 'minimum viable product' on the English Wikipedia next Thursday, April 25, as outlined in our release plan [3].
Here is the final feature set for this first release candidate: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo#First_release
We plan to introduce a few more features after this first release, such as HTML Emails and other important requests from our community.
Many thanks to Benny, Kaldari, Luke, Vibha and everyone on our team for all your hard work in making this product possible!
Enjoy,
Fabrice and the E2 Team
P.S.: In other news, we came really close to re-deploying Article Feedback on en-wiki earlier this morning, but had to postpone that release a few more days, in order to solve some latency issues when switching filters for the feedback page. We'll try again next Tuesday. Perseverance furthers ...
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Mark_all_as_read
[2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
[3] http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
- You can remove notifications from your toolbar if you want
Wait, you mean a preference to turn off notifications entirely and hide the UI?
This turns off the notifications badge and overlay/flyout. Email notifications still work as normal. Special:Notifications also still works. The orange bar of death reappears.
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/18/13 3:51 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org mailto:fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
* You can remove notifications from your toolbar if you wantWait, you mean a preference to turn off notifications entirely and hide the UI?
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.orgwrote:
This turns off the notifications badge and overlay/flyout. Email notifications still work as normal. Special:Notifications also still works. The orange bar of death reappears.
Okay, why are we supporting this option?
When it comes to experimental stuff, I think having opt-outs is key. But for major new features we shouldn't be building in an off switch for everything.
The rationale for this 'Web display' feature is that some users may not want this new tool at all.
We wanted to give them the option to have it be mostly invisible to them, and keep things the way they are today.
Once we've improved Notifications based on community feedback, we would encourage them to switch to the new tool down the line.
Read more in this feature requirement:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Web_Display
Fabrice
On Apr 18, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
This turns off the notifications badge and overlay/flyout. Email notifications still work as normal. Special:Notifications also still works. The orange bar of death reappears.
Ryan Kaldari
On 4/18/13 3:51 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
- You can remove notifications from your toolbar if you want
Wait, you mean a preference to turn off notifications entirely and hide the UI?
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Hi everyone,
At long last, I'm happy to say that we just released an updated version of Article Feedback (AFT5) on the English Wikipedia today!
Article Feedback v5 now includes many new features to surface useful feedback and reduce the editor workload: • Better feedback filters • Simpler moderation tools • Separate reader tools • Discuss on talk page
This new version of AFT5 is now available on an opt-in basis to editors who would like to get reader feedback for articles they watch on the English Wikipedia. To enable feedback on article you are working on, simply add the 'Article_Feedback_5' category on those pages.
Read more about this release on the AFT5 talk page: http://ur1.ca/dhu36
You can test the new tool here on the Central feedback page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedbackv5
For tips on how to test this release, visit this testing page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Testing
For more details on how the tool works, check out this FAQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors
Besides these new features, we completely overhauled the back-end and database for this tool, so that it can scale up to support millions of comments per month for all the wiki projects who want to use it. This work will be invaluable for new projects like Flow, which can now use the same infrastructure for messaging and related purposes.
We are now wrapping up new development for this project, and will collect community responses for the next few months before building any more features -- based on upcoming votes on the French and German Wikipedias later this year.
Over time, we hope this engagement tool can help more users contribute on Wikipedia, as well as invite editors to improve articles based on reader feedback.
Many thanks to Matthias, Oliver, Pau, Benny, Kaldari, Luke, Chris, Dario, Aaron, Philippe, Denis, Asher, Roan, Howie, Terry, Erik -- as well as community volunteers such as Dougweller, Mike Cline, Risker, TheHelpfulOne, TomMorris, Utar, WhatamIdoing, Trizek, se4598, TMg and everyone else who pitched in to provide this helpful service to our users!
Onward ...
Fabrice and the E2 Team
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Hurrah! Notifications going out.....now :)
Many thanks to Fabrice and Matthias, along with the rest of the AFT5 team; it's been a long road to take, but we've reached the end of it whole and hearty thanks to you :).
On 24 April 2013 00:20, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
At long last, I'm happy to say that we just released an updated version of Article Feedback (AFT5) on the English Wikipedia today!
Article Feedback v5 now includes many new features to surface useful feedback and reduce the editor workload: • Better feedback filters • Simpler moderation tools • Separate reader tools • Discuss on talk page
This new version of AFT5 is now available on an opt-in basis to editors who would like to get reader feedback for articles they watch on the English Wikipedia. To enable feedback on article you are working on, simply add the 'Article_Feedback_5' category on those pages.
Read more about this release on the AFT5 talk page: http://ur1.ca/dhu36
You can test the new tool here on the Central feedback page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ArticleFeedbackv5
For tips on how to test this release, visit this testing page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Testing
For more details on how the tool works, check out this FAQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback/Help/Editors
Besides these new features, we completely overhauled the back-end and database for this tool, so that it can scale up to support millions of comments per month for all the wiki projects who want to use it. This work will be invaluable for new projects like Flow, which can now use the same infrastructure for messaging and related purposes.
We are now wrapping up new development for this project, and will collect community responses for the next few months before building any more features -- based on upcoming votes on the French and German Wikipedias later this year.
Over time, we hope this engagement tool can help more users contribute on Wikipedia, as well as invite editors to improve articles based on reader feedback.
Many thanks to Matthias, Oliver, Pau, Benny, Kaldari, Luke, Chris, Dario, Aaron, Philippe, Denis, Asher, Roan, Howie, Terry, Erik -- as well as community volunteers such as Dougweller, Mike Cline, Risker, TheHelpfulOne, TomMorris, Utar, WhatamIdoing, Trizek, se4598, TMg and everyone else who pitched in to provide this helpful service to our users!
Onward ...
Fabrice and the E2 Team
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Many thanks to Fabrice and Matthias, along with the rest of the AFT5 team; it's been a long road to take, but we've reached the end of it whole and hearty thanks to you :).
+1, kudos for getting the new UI and backend out the door and slogging through this project at a ridiculously low resourcing level (sorry - the idea was to run it as a lower priority / slow burn project, but we won't do it again like that). We've done everything we can to make moderation easy, automate filtering of common noise, etc. Now it's up to the communities to decide whether AFT5 will have a near-term future. I hope so, as I still think the long term benefits outweigh the disadvantages, but I understand the community concern of dealing with an inherently limited signal/noise ratio.
Let's continue to keep an eye on critical bugs but looking forward to shifting our full attention to completing the Echo rollout and starting work on Flow.
Erik
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.orgwrote:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.**org/wiki/EE_Dashboardhttps://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/EE_Dashboard
Ryan Kaldari
Very cool! Glad to see these coming along. Two comments:
1. The Google-backed signin system should probably be documented more. 2. We should probably add some notes about data best practices, like documenting in the interface what "new" or "existing" user means precisely.
Greetings!
We just deployed another release candidate for Notifications today on MediaWiki.org.
Here are some of the new features and bug fixes in today's release: * Remove 'Web display' preference * New question mark icon on flyout * Bold user and page names in flyout * New pink heart icon for thanks notifications * Set email defaults to false for thanks and page reviews * New event logging schema for metrics * New metrics dashboards [1]
Please let us know if you experience any issues for this final version. For tips on how to test notifications on MediaWiki.org, check our testing page [2]. You are also welcome to post bugs directly on Bugzilla [3].
We plan to release this first 'minimum viable product' on the English Wikipedia next Tuesday, April 30, as outlined in our release plan [4]. We had to postpone that release by a few days to develop a better way to set user preferences on en-wiki, as well as complete the metrics logging scripts for data collection. This also gave us a chance to test all key features on MediaWiki.org first, before deploying on the English Wikipedia.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
Enjoy,
Fabrice and the E2 Team
[1] http://toolserver.org/~dartar/echo/
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
[4] http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
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&...
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
_______________________________
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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&...
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
BIG congratulations E2 team!
I'm super happy to see welcome and getting started notifications happening. :)
OH GODS WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
But that's kind of a separate issue. Nice work here.
On 30/04/13 21:22, Fabrice Florin wrote:
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&...
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
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
EE mailing list EE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee
Awesome. For the first time in a while I'm actually excited to get a message on my talk page. Can't wait to play with this!! Congratulations.
Does that mean WikiLove is back?
:)
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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&...
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
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
The future is now! One question: What's the best way to wrap a userlink so that it doesn't prompt a notification?
- J
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Sarah Stierch sstierch@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Awesome. For the first time in a while I'm actually excited to get a message on my talk page. Can't wait to play with this!! Congratulations.
Does that mean WikiLove is back?
:)
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
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&...
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
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
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I don't know. But Kaldari has told me wikilove is not back yet for other java related reasons.
Got my first two notifications. Super cool.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 30, 2013, at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
The future is now! One question: What's the best way to wrap a userlink so that it doesn't prompt a notification?
- J
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Sarah Stierch sstierch@wikimedia.org wrote:
Awesome. For the first time in a while I'm actually excited to get a message on my talk page. Can't wait to play with this!! Congratulations.
Does that mean WikiLove is back?
:)
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.org wrote:
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&...
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
Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Sarah Stierch sstierch@wikimedia.org wrote:
I don't know. But Kaldari has told me wikilove is not back yet for other java related reasons.
Make that "javascript". java and javascript are very different things.
If you have a browser with HTML5 video and audio support built in then we don't use java at all. (I think?) Anyway, java's disabled in my browser.
-Jeremy
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
The future is now! One question: What's the best way to wrap a userlink so that it doesn't prompt a notification?
My understanding is that you don't have to wrap it unless you're mentioning it in a signed talk page comment.
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Ah, that explains it. Thanks, Erik!
- Jonathan
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
The future is now! One question: What's the best way to wrap a userlink
so
that it doesn't prompt a notification?
My understanding is that you don't have to wrap it unless you're mentioning it in a signed talk page comment.
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi folks,
Here's a quick update about the Notifications tool, which has kept us very busy since we released it on the English Wikipedia a couple weeks ago.
1. New version Today, we deployed a new version on the English Wikipedia, which includes a number of bug fixes and couple new features, outlined below.
Try it out for yourself (1), and let us know if you have any comments or questions. If you come across any bugs, please post them on Bugzilla (2).
2. New message indicator The most important new feature in today's release is a new message indicator which now appears next to the red notifications badge when people post on your talk page (3). It is intended to make you aware of new messages -- not just ephemeral notifications -- as well as provide a secondary visual cue in case you miss the red badge.
We affectionately call it the 'Orange Bar of Love' (OBOL), because it was developed collaboratively with community members -- as an alternative to the larger 'Orange Bar of Doom' (OBOD) that was used before. The OBOD provided a similar function, but in a more disruptive way that didn't conform with modern web design conventions, by placing it inside the article content area rather than near the user menu where such notifications are usually placed.
3. Community discussion We spent much of last week discussing community concerns about the removal of the OBOD, as well as designing new message indicator and building prototypes to address these concerns. We reviewed a half-dozen options with a large group on a special discussion page (4), then tested special gadgets with a smaller group on IRC (5), leading to a resolution in favor of the OBOL.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all community members who joined this discussion -- especially Edokter and Ignatz, who made some invaluable contributions to move this project forward, along with Kaldari and Vibha.
4. Metrics We are now collecting a first set of metrics to track the number of notification events on the English Wikipedia, as shown on our metrics dashboard (6). Here's a brief overview: about 166k notifications were triggered in the two weeks since we deployed on April 30th, or a daily average of about 12k notifications. About 61% of these notifications were for existing users, and 39% for new users. About 40% of total notifications are for welcome and getting started notifications, with 37% for talk page messages; page reviews, page links and user mentions represent about 10% of notifications.
In coming weeks, we expect to provide more metrics for total preferences, impressions and clicks, as outlined in our metrics plan (7), thanks to all the hard work from Dario, Benny and Aaron.
5. Survey The notifications tool is generally being received favorably by the wider community, as suggested by early results of our user survey (8), which indicate that about 61% of respondents find them useful - versus 17% who do not find notifications useful. This is from about 256 respondents, who are largely active editors (approx. 71% edit once a day). As we engage more new users to take this survey, we expect to hear more from newbies and will report separately on what they tell us.
6. Next steps We are now focusing on a number of new features and follow up initiatives related to this project, including HTML email notifications, as well as dismiss options, metrics, international, mobile and developer programs, some of which are outlined in our updated slides (9). More on this later.
Many thanks again to everyone who made this project possible!
All the best,
Fabrice and the E2 Team
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications
(2) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
(3) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Message_indicator
(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/New_message_indicator
(5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications#IRC_chat_update
(6) http://toolserver.org/~dartar/en/echo/
(7) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Metrics
(8) https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=ueWEEs67tUBV8kYmp6H_2fpHk1WbzYvhskE0...
(9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notifications-Slides-05-10-2013.pdf
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Hi guys,
We just released another update of the Notifications tool on the English Wikipedia today.
Here are some of the key revisions we deployed:
* Talk page notifications now link directly to sections (when available)
* Page link notifications now go to the article that linked to your page (unless page links are bundled)
* Users can now be blacklisted by the community if their notifications are deemed inappropriate (1)
* You can create a personal whitelist if you wish to get notifications from a blacklisted user (1)
* Notification preferences now show disabled checkbox for talkpage messages on the web (instead of hiding it)
* Fixed odd link breakage in plain text email notifications
Try these out for yourself, and let us know if you have any comments or questions.
If you come across any bugs, please post them on Bugzilla (2).
Enjoy!
Fabrice and the E2 Team
(1) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/Feature_requirements#Blac...
(2) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&...
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Hi folks,
Today, we're happy to announce the release of the Thanks notification on the English Wikipedia, along with several new features and bug fixes, as outlined below.
1. Thanks notification This experimental feature offers a new way to give positive feedback on Wikipedia. It lets editors send a private 'Thank you' notification to users who make useful edits -- by clicking a small 'thank' link on their history or diff page, as described in our overview page. (1)
The purpose of the Thanks notification is to give quick positive feedback to recognize productive contributions. We hope that it will make it easier to show appreciation for each other's work -- and it should be particularly helpful for encouraging new users during their first critical steps on Wikipedia.
We have intentionally kept this notification as simple as possible, so we can all evaluate it and improve it together. Once you have had a chance to try it out, we welcome your feedback about this feature, and look forward to a healthy discussion on our talk page. (2)
2. New features Today, we also released a couple more features and bug fixes on the English Wikipedia and MediaWiki.org:
* Talk page messages are now marked as read when you visit the talk page -- and the red badge is reset as well (Bug 47912) (3)
* Tooltips in preferences help explain how notifications work when you hover over question marks (Bug 47094) (4)
Most of these revisions were made based on community feedback and we would love to hear if they work for you. If you come across any bugs, please report them here, or post them on Bugzilla. (5)
3. Next release For next releases, we're now focusing on these features, which were also requested by many community members:
* Provide 'diff' links in the flyout for talk page messages and mentions (Bug 48183) (6)
* More metrics dashboards, as specified in our research plan (7)
* HTML Email notifications, with clear visual cues about new activity (8)
4. Next steps Our follow-up goals for Notifications include:
* Complete core features next month
* Deploy Echo on international projects this summer
* Develop cross-wiki and a few key features this fall
* Support mobile + multimedia teams and developers
Our roadmap for 2013 is outlined in our E2 planning slides. (9)
Many thanks to all the community and team members who have helped us create and improve this project!
All the best,
Fabrice and the E2 Team
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notifications/Thanks
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications/Thanks
(3) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47912
(4) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47094
(6) https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47912
(7) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Metrics#First_Dashboards
(8) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#HTML_single_email_no...
(9) https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1LyqKRVH1mWs3OMWOCIL5...
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
*1. Thanks notification* This experimental feature offers a new way to give positive feedback on Wikipedia. It lets editors send a private 'Thank you' notification to users who make useful edits -- by clicking a small 'thank' link on their history or diff page, as described in our overview page. (1)
The purpose of the Thanks notification is to give quick positive feedback to recognize productive contributions. We hope that it will make it easier to show appreciation for each other's work -- and it should be particularly helpful for encouraging new users during their first critical steps on Wikipedia.
We have intentionally kept this notification as simple as possible, so we can all evaluate it and improve it together. Once you have had a chance to try it out, we welcome your feedback about this feature, and look forward to a healthy discussion on our talk page. (2)
Congrats on the launch you guys! I am super excited to see this feature on the wiki.