Strongly desired product. Great to see it finally here. Congrats to all involved.
J
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
I've enjoyed finding some messages I never knew were there, such as a welcome message from two years ago on Basque Wikipedia, and a substantive reply I had missed on Wikinews for 4 months. It's refreshing for a new feature to make me immediately feel more connected to other volunteers. Well done! -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome news!!! I really appreciate this new feature.
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Roan Kattouw rkattouw@wikimedia.org wrote:
In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building
a
cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other wikis
in
the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set
of
wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on
all
wikis as a beta feature.
You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link [2]
in
the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner)
will
now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and
see
those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation on mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages
at
the time of this writing.
Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta feature
on
one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However,
you
only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications
on a
wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable
the
beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from
the
French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian
Wiktionary
even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact,
if
you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5].
Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk page
on
mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug,
please
report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community
liaisons
Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their work on
this
over the past few months.
--Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
[1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and mediawiki.org [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab [3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_n...
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications [7]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=N...
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