Hello !
On French Wikipedia, email notifications not enabled by default. So new users do not know when their talk page is modified, or when something change on their watchlist.
On English Wikipedia, email notifications enabled by default, right ? How did you do that ? Is there a good feedback from new users ? Do whey complain about flooding ?
Thanks for your answers,
I believe the current status on English Wikipedia is when you sign up you get sent an email titled "Wikipedia Email Address Confirmation".
If you click the link in that, you will by default get password resets, talk page update notifications and emails from other users. You need to visit the settings page to enable watch list notifications.
It would not be me they complain to about flooding, so I can't answer your question about user feedback.
Luke Welling
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Benoît Evellin < benoit.evellin@wikimedia.fr> wrote:
Hello !
On French Wikipedia, email notifications not enabled by default. So new users do not know when their talk page is modified, or when something change on their watchlist.
On English Wikipedia, email notifications enabled by default, right ? How did you do that ? Is there a good feedback from new users ? Do whey complain about flooding ?
Thanks for your answers,
Benoît Evellin / User:Trizek Wikimédia France Volunteer www.wikimedia.fr
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On 03/21/2013 11:57 AM, Benoît Evellin wrote:
On English Wikipedia, email notifications enabled by default, right ? How did you do that ? Is there a good feedback from new users ? Do whey complain about flooding ?
Summary of the below - There are a lot of preferences controlling this, but as far as I can tell, they're all the same for enwiki and frwiki. The only one I see any variation for is wgEnotifMinorEdits, and even for that, it's false both of those two. Also, I think the only one true for an editor who does nothing is emails for changes to their user talk.
If you're sure there's a difference between en and fr for a particular scenario, reply with the details.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDefaultUserOptions . Look for a few things in particular:
* Preferences containing enotif (email notification), one of which is enotifwatchlistpages ("E-mail notification to editor if there are changes to a page the editor has on his watchlist"). * Watchlist preferences ** watchcreations - "Add pages the user creates and files they upload to their watchlist". True globally ** watchdefault - "Add pages the user edits to their watchlist". I think this is currently false globally (probably since it piles up fast for even a semi-active editor). I believe English Wikipedia is considering setting this true for new editors. There are also similar ones for moving (watchmoves) and deleting (watchdeletion) a page.
To check what the defaults are on WMF sites, see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=bl... and https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/mediawiki-config.git;a=bl...
Finally, for the default default (for any MediaWiki site), see https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=includes...
For all of these, case-insensitive search for enotif should find everything.
Matt Flaschen