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From: "Strainu" strainu10@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:32:09 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Email notification sender 2012/1/3 Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org:
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Why do email notifications from Wikipedia have the sender as "MediaWiki Mail"? Most Wikipedia users probably don't know what "MediaWiki" is. I suggest it be changed to "Wikipedia" or "Wikipedia notifications" or something like that.
I agree with the {{SITENAME}} suggestion, and would prefer to omit "Mail". (The fact that it's an email is self-evident.)
I wouldn't be so fast in leaving only the sitename as sender name - a mail from "Wikipedia" would raise my (manual) spam alarms, just like emails from the "Federal Bureau of Investigations" or from "[X] Bank".
For my part, I believe that "Mediawiki Mail" is proper, as it's mail *generated by the named program* (note: not "site").
If you reverse it to Wikipedia/media, though, it's from the site, not the program, and the expected usage indeed changes not to include "Mail".
Cheers, -- jra