On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:55 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on > Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification > e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I > wouldn't check it more than once every few days. > > There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I > would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high > priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve > the user experience and user retention/return, but this piece of fruit > seems > particularly low-hanging. > > Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to > go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone > edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The > smaller > sites have had these types of notifications for a long time. The > notification system is built in to MediaWiki, it's just not enabled on > larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220>. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > +1 I only know to check strategy and meta (no that I'm highly active there from email notifications. I'm on the English Wikipedia several times each day from my computer, where I can get talk messages, but most of the time I'm at work and checking email and using mobile. It'd be a nice feature. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
