Hi,
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.org wrote:
This might be something that would be better suited for Echo rather than talk page notifications.
I agree; the problem is that such notifications are currently not planned in Echo/Notifications.
Quoting from my post on WP:VP/T: "It seems to me that this noticeboard would be yet another suboptimal workaround to a proper channel for topical notifications. Echo/Notifications was once presented as the solution to this problem, but "public announcements" are currently listed as "out of scope" < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo#Scope >. I don't know what the timeline is (if any) for the support of topical public announcements in Echo."
And earlier in this thread:
In the longer term, the Notifications system will hopefully end up solving the issue in a better way, but if a quick bot hack can be a good interim alternative, I think it's worth a shot.