Hey Pine,
Thanks for your kind words about Echo. Those of us who created it are really happy the
tool is useful to you. :)
See my comments inline below.
Fabrice
On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:53 PM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks again to those who created Echo. It is being
used widely in my circles and I get lots of useful notices these days.
* I would like to suggest making more of the notices send email by default, especially
thanks notifications.
We enable email notifications by default for all new users.
Existing users have to opt-in. When we launched the product, we didn’t want current users
to be overwhelmed by too many email notifications they didn’t ask for. At this point, it
would be strange to change that policy, given that individual users have sole control over
their preferences.
* I heard another user suggest sending a notification
when a file that someone uploads to Commons is added to a Wikipedia article. I think that
is a great idea. Can this be done?
Yes, our multimedia team is hoping to build this ‘your file was used’ notification in
coming months, as specified here:
https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/multimedia/cards/170
Stay tuned for more ...
* I would like to ask about the thanks system on Meta.
I started to use the Echo thanks system to thank who are answering questions on the Annual
Plan talk page, including some of you on this list, and I ran into some differences from
English Wikipedia. On Meta I am asked for the revision ID of the edit for the thanks
notification, and after thanking a user the "thank" link for an edit doesn't
change to "thanked". Will Meta thanks notifications be upgraded in the future to
function like ENWP's does?
I’m not sure why Thanks would behave differently on Meta. Does anyone know?
Pine
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