Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 11, 2005 10:02 PM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
I know of many users having asked for implementing this, but how do _you_ like this ? Shall we notify changes on both pages ?
I'm not sure about this; it's quite nice having the user_talk page be the one unique page capable of alerting you in this way. Sure, people shouldn't be editting your user: page anyway, but that can be dealt with on the watchlist like anything else (and a lot of people have multiple user sub-pages they want to track in this way). And while it might be a message, it might just be someone fiddling, or even editting twice to remove something when they realised it was in the wrong place.
I don't know about _messages_ on the user page--I think an edit by another user on one's own user page could be just as likely to be vandalism. I have had to deal with user-page vandalism on one of my own wikis; it is possible that such could go unnoticed for a long time, especially for a user who does not regularly visit the wiki [the edit would scroll off recentchanges quickly, off the default watchlist in a few days, and I don't know about other users, but I rarely visit my own user page].
So I think a message saying "someone has edited your user page" would be somewhat useful. (Though of course the user should still have the option to disable it.)
*Muke!