Alex Nordstrom wrote:
Saturday, 6 October 2007, Florian Straub wrote:
What about {{notify me}}? The users are advised to put it on their user page after registration.
What? We have a template encouraging this behaviour? English, Polish and Spanish Wikipedia are not Wikimedia Commons. Demanding that Commons discussions take place there is about as reasonable as asking notification on one's Facebook page. It's a long-standing principle on Wikimedia projects that discouraging use of one's talk page (and that includes diverting such use elsewhere) is unacceptable.
- Users who can't be bothered to check their user talk pages should
enable e-mail notifications. It takes all of three clicks.
- Users who can't be bothered checking their user talk pages should not
expect other users to jump through hoops such as registering on another site or divulging their IP address.
Apart from the rudeness of expecting this burden to be reversed, there are several technical problems with this idea.
You only need to tell them: You have a new message at your [[commons:User Talk:Foo|commons talk page]] ~~~~ Is it so difficult? I understand that you may not want to register a new account, but *It will be fixed with SUL *It's also needed for other tasks, such as replacing images. *There's a [[Locality_of_reference]]s, you will only need an account on a quite small number of wikis.
On the other hand, you're welcome to nicely recommend email notifications (which are a newer system than {{notify me}}).