On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:55 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I wouldn't check it more than once every few days.
There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve the user experience and user retention/return, but this piece of fruit seems particularly low-hanging.
Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller sites have had these types of notifications for a long time. The notification system is built in to MediaWiki, it's just not enabled on larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220.
MZMcBride
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I only know to check strategy and meta (no that I'm highly active there from email notifications. I'm on the English Wikipedia several times each day from my computer, where I can get talk messages, but most of the time I'm at work and checking email and using mobile. It'd be a nice feature.