I've enjoyed finding some messages I never knew were there, such as a welcome message from two years ago on Basque Wikipedia, and a substantive reply I had missed on Wikinews for 4 months. It's refreshing for a new feature to make me immediately feel more connected to other volunteers. Well done! -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome news!!! I really appreciate this new feature. > > Sydney > > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > Wikipedian in Residence > at Cochrane Collaboration > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Roan Kattouw <rkatt...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building a > > cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other wikis > in > > the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set of > > wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on all > > wikis as a beta feature. > > > > You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link [2] > in > > the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the > > "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible > > through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner) > will > > now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have > > unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and see > > those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation on > > mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages at > > the > > time of this writing. > > > > Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta feature > on > > one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However, you > > only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications on a > > wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable the > > beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from the > > French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary > > even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact, if > > you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old > > notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske > > tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5]. > > > > Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk page > on > > mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug, > please > > report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page. > > > > Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community liaisons > > Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and BenoƮt Evellin (Trizek) for their work on this > > over the past few months. > > > > --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope) > > > > [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and > > mediawiki.org > > [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab > > [3] > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_notification.png > > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki > > [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882 > > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications > > [7] > > > > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=Notifications > > [8] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>