Is this change related to the standard notifications pop-up window no longer working in Chrome (it just sits waiting to get painted), or was that an existing bug?
Thanks, Fae On 11 March 2016 at 07:07, 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 Benoît 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> -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote. _______________________________________________ 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>
