[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

[Michael Peel]

On 13 Dec 2008, at 14:02, Platonides wrote:

> teun spaans wrote:
>> Many times it works well.
>> But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss.
>>
>> I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a  
>> correct
>> license. Some wikimedian had accidently removed the license,  
>> making a bot
>> come along and warn me. By pure coincidence i happened to come  
>> along at
>> commons - sometimes months go by without me dropping in - and was  
>> able to
>> restore the license, protest angainst its deletion, and so on.
>> 7 days is awfully short. One easy thing that can be approved is an  
>> email
>> instead of a bot message on a talk page.
>>
>> But that wont change the self centered attitude of commonists.
>
> You *will* get an email if have chosen on your Preferences to get an
> email whenever your talk page is modified.
> Having that option available on WMF wikis was pushed from commons
> community, and in fact Commons was one of the first projects where it
> was added. Now it is enabled on all wikis but the big ones.

 From personal experience, this feature doesn't work reliably. I have  
a fairly large number of items on my watchlist at Commons and on  
Meta, such that there are edits made on average once a day, but I  
only receive the emails about those edits sporadically, and often in  
bursts.

It is still a very useful feature, though. It's a pity that you can't  
have two watchlists on en.wp, such that you can use one to keep an  
eye on articles you're particularly attached to, with the other  
handling all the rest.

Mike