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(a)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(a)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(a)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_…
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=…
[8]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
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