On 14 November 2011 17:07, William Allen Simpson <
william.allen.simpson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What commons (and meta) do say in the body (different
from enwiki):
# There will be no other notifications in case of further changes unless
# you visit this page.
# You could also reset the notification flags for all your watched pages
# on your watchlist
This message is actually not true. Visiting the page is /not/ enough to
reset the trigger: you /also/ have to log in! And considering it is only a
welcome message, there is no reason to reply, and thus no real reason to
log in.
The welcome message might actually be *detrimental* in these cases: if the
welcome message is not posted, the next message - hopefully one which
requests a reply - will be the one to trigger the e-mail.
One possible way to improve this would be to add information to the url,
which links to the user (i.e. add ?token=abcdefg to the url) - but I don't
know if this is a good idea in terms of privacy.
Best,
Merlijn