On 14 November 2011 17:07, William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simpson@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