On Apr 23, 2014 4:15 AM, "Fabrice Florin" <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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?
Maybe user has misbehaving user js or gadgets. Thank link seems to work
fine for me.
-bawolff
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