Dear Developers,

I need to clarify some things, because the amount of complaints is going into a wrong direction, which does not please me, as I wanted to support the MediaWiki project, not to slow it down.

As my two "babies" (see subject) are now merged into the CVS-HEAD version (on 18.12.2004) and some people are still complaining this and that instead of acknowledging the efforts, I kindly ask those of you being interested in my enhancements - which are running quietly and stable on my four wikis without a single problem since August 2004:

to consider to visit http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif , to try a fresh checkout from the CVS HEAD version and to contact me if you have problems or to tell me, that and how you like it. There are http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 for ENotif and http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866 for EAuthent , however, I prefer direct e-mail contact, because I can answer quicker.

Please be reminded and check first: ============================ There are two commonly reported pitfalls (not problems): 1. You do ***not*** get any e-mail notifications for your own changes: you can test the e-notification only if you commit page changes as another user (e.g. anonymous). 2. You must have ***stored*** an E-mail address - obviously - to receive notifications. If also EAuthent was enabled during installation, you need to have the address ***authenticated***, which status is always shown in your user preferences.

I am pretty convinced that you will like it. If you have concrete proposals for ameliorations, please carefully read the existing list on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Email_notification_to-do_list . This page lists not only to-do items, but also the existing user proposals.

Tom aka Wikinaut