Hi,
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
This might be something that would be better suited
for Echo rather than
talk page notifications.
I agree; the problem is that such notifications are currently not
planned in Echo/Notifications.
Quoting from my post on WP:VP/T:
"It seems to me that this noticeboard would be yet another suboptimal
workaround to a proper channel for topical notifications.
Echo/Notifications was once presented as the solution to this problem,
but "public announcements" are currently listed as "out of scope"
<
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo#Scope >. I don't know what the
timeline is (if any) for the support of topical public announcements
in Echo."
And earlier in this thread:
In the longer term, the Notifications system will
hopefully end up
solving the issue in a better way, but if a quick bot hack can be a
good interim alternative, I think it's worth a shot.