2012/1/3 Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org>:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@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".
Strainu
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