---- Original Message -----
From: "Strainu" <strainu10(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)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(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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
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