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If I link to some user by putting {{subst:U
or something like that, does it still show up on their notifications as a mention?
Rcsprinter
(converse) @ 20:33, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, it would be nice to get a notification (on Commons) if one of my photos that I uploaded to Commons is added to any article in any wiki. A “page link” feature for images. Thanks, ---- Stefan »Στέφανος« ‽ 16:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you please notify editors via their red dot when someone emails them via Special:EmailUser? Cheers. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 12:44, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the discussion on unbundling page creator notifications has been deleted with no visible resolution? Meclee ( talk) 19:03, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
I really like receiving page link notifications on an article I created, Social network, because so many editors link to it inappropriately (usually referring to Social networking services). However, it's painful to logon and see a notification that one specific article AND a bunch of other unspecified articles have been linked to Social network with no way for me to determine which of several hundred linked articles have been recently linked to Social network. I'm wondering if the notifications could be changed so that each individual article linked has a separate, specific notification? Thanks to all who have worked on the notification project. For the most part, it's been a positive addition to WP! Meclee ( talk) 23:37, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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I've submitted your feature request as bugzilla:59005. HTH. – Quiddity ( talk) 20:08, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Is this possible? I ask because I am 'thanked' for my edits on the main page on a more-then-daily basis. It would be helpfull if I could, for instance, put a __NOTHANKS__ on the page. — Edokter ( talk) — 11:10, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
Lets say someone leaves a message on your talk page and you reply back to them on your own user page. Does the other user get a notification? Techman224 Talk 03:51, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
The first (creating) entry in a page's history doesn't have a "thank" link. Can that be arranged? I'd like to be able to thank people for starting an article, essay, etc. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 16:30, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
On it.wp, the question mark in the flyout, when clicked, redirects to mw:Help:Notifications. I want to find out where I can change this to mw:Help:Notifications/it. The reason is simple, there are probably more Italian speakers than non-Italian speakers clicking on that specific link, and, especially if they are newbies, they certainly have not set Italian as their language in the Preferences on that site. So the correct page would be a click away from them, and other users have suggested that this should change. Thanks for your help, -- Elitre ( talk) 19:10, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I have had three notifications, each described as 'MarnetteD left a message on your talk page in "Your revert of The Rescue".' however, the three edits that were linked ( [1], [2], [3]) were all to a section named User talk:Redrose64#Is mass rollback possible?, which is the one following. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Something has misfired in the notification function. I got a notification that says "Mark Miller mentioned you on the Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Freedom from Want (painting)/1 talk page in "Freedom from Want (painting)", but there is no hint of any such mention there. -- Orlady ( talk) 15:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
I promised to do this the best part of six months ago and never got around to it - apologies! But here's a start...
The notifications page as currently written is essentially an announcement of a new tool, but I think we're past that stage and into "business as usual". I've redrafted the page to focus more on current use rather than requests for feedback, and there's a draft here - any thoughts? Are people happy to switch to the new version? Andrew Gray ( talk) 18:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
I note that the font size used for the subheading in Notifications is microscopic (as evident on
screenshot. To my shock, I doscover that all font-sizes are set in px, with the subheaders (.mw-echo-timestamp
and .mw-echo-notification-footer
) being set to 9px. With accessibility in mind, this is just way too small. I'm not going to explain why using px is not a good practice to begin with, but can you please bump the font size of the above classes to 11px (and make sure nothing else uses anything lower then 11px)? —
Edokter (
talk) — 11:53, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm not too sure whether this is planned or not, but having got a thank you for an edit, I felt it seemed wrong to have the notification badge turn red. I do not associate the colour red with being thanked, rather, the colour green (which just so happens to the colour of the smiling icon of the thanking). I do not know whether this is possible or within the coding, but I would much prefer it if the notification badge turns green when I get a thank you, and did a similar thing for other types of notifications. So to sum up this idea:
Is there any chance of this function being expanded to allow any article or redirect of my choosing? There are many disambiguation pages and misspellings that I would like to receive notifications for. For example, I have the initial edit on the article Critically Endangered, which I would imagine could be useful for a biology editor to receive linked from notifications, yet I'm the only person on the site who benefits from it. — Xezbeth ( talk) 11:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
I would appreciate any input to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Editor review#Non-Requested Review ?. Maybe the notification for (user) page reviews could be updated. benzband ( talk) 23:45, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
What about some option to enable global notifications from every wiki? Is it possible? Dominikmatus ( talk) 01:52, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
If i mention and link to a user in an edit summary will it trigger a notification. If it doesn't it would be handy if it could. Blethering Scot 21:06, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I believe that the template notification system doesn't work in template space. At least one other editor told me my pings to them were unseen, and recently I noticed that my name was mentioned at
Template:Did you know nominations/Émile Coulaudon and I as not notified. Perhaps this is because the tool was not intended to work in non-talk spaces - alas, there are a number of places in the project where non-talk spaces are used for talk (some templates, more on Wikipedia: spaces...). --
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here 13:58, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Something happens, I get an e-mail and a notification. I see the e-mail first, and view the relevant page. Notification doesn't deactivate automatically. Please, even if it is a logic problem like this, look into it; it's a noisy behaviour. -- Gryllida ( talk) 15:07, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. If you are one of the 62 editors who experienced the Notifications bug today, but haven't found any of the relevant threads discussing it, please see the various ways to fix it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Accidental ping. Thanks, and sorry for the distraction and inconvenience. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 02:14, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
While looking at a page in mobile view just now I received a notification. However, after tapping the indicator and being taken to the notifications page, no new notification was visible there. Switching to desktop view revealed that I should have seen a notification of posts being made on my talk page. — Scott • talk 11:37, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
It might be interesting to have that .. especially since "Article feedback – My watched pages" doesn't seem to be working. -- 签名 sig at 17:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello. The default colour of the notification badge is grey, which looks a bit dull. How about using green 0 as the default colour (as opposed to red, when there are notifications)? It may look better. Zhaofeng Li [ talk... contribs... 13:40, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
I think that the default settings for notifications should be less aggressive. (I tend to only include things in main space; notification of mentions is a bit weird since if they want they will look at a discussion anyway: I would only notify them when they create a new discussion.) -- Gryllida ( talk) 10:36, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
In other words: include a setting for me to be notified of new items I create, but not of every edit to them. -- Gryllida ( talk) 10:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I posted a while back about something somewhat similar but here's a new wrinkle. I've been constantly getting notifications that "Indietronica was linked from X". Seemed to be the same issue as last time. As was explained to me then, once a page I had on my watchlist was added to some template or category, I would receive a notification whenever the pages containing that template were purged or edited. Annoying but I can live with it. However, this time when it was happening, I removed the page from my watchlist. That removal was more than a month ago and I've gotten two dozen notifications since then (the last earlier today).-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 03:05, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Notifications doesn't seem to be using Czech names of groups of EP extension. Those messages for EP have been translated via translatewiki.net and are (already for some time) at 100 % done.
I have received a notification Nyní patříte do této skupiny: eponline. (You are now assigned into group: eponline.) while the right form should be something like Nyní patříte do této skupiny: Online dobrovolníci kurzu. (You are now assigned into group: Online volunteers.).
Tracking down Notifation message which is causing this I have found: MediaWiki:Notification-user-rights-add. So, in short, my request is this: can you change parameter $1 for that message so it recognizes full (translated) names of EP groups too? I assume it currently does so for other groups like autoconfirmed and admin users. If it doesn't make it, if possible, write full names for all groups. Thanks in advance --13:17, 7 February 2014 (UTC), Utar ( talk)
It seems like a notification icon in one Web-browser window doesn't notice when I read it in another window. So, if I open 2 windows, read the notification in one, and then close that window, I will see an apparently unread notification in the other window. This is very confusing… I'd appreciate if it could be filed as a bug somehow. Thanks! :) Goldenshimmer ( talk) 17:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
I think it would be nice if there was an "Ignore editors" list. Essentially, all editors on this list delimited by linefeeds would be ignored and would not notify me when those editors do the various things that generally ping me on Echo. This would help editors who are under an IBAN and are supposed to not interact with others from being baited, ect.--v/r - T P 07:46, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
If I click on the "Thank" link in the heading of a diff, the system asks me if I want to thank that editor, so I can confirm or not. That's fine. But if I'm looking at diffs on my mobile phone and accidentally hit the huge green "Thank" button which is in the bottom right corner very near to my phone's "back" button, there's no such safeguard. That's a problem. Please ensure that mobile users are protected from accidental thanking. Pam D 08:09, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Whenever I get a notification of a mention, it always says that I got mentioned on the talk page, even when it wasn't. For example, this edit gave me a notification reading
Ansh666 mentioned you on the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents talk page in "Suggestion to close thread..."
I've learned to ignore "talk page" in the message, since most of my notifications are messages on my own talk page, and the exceptions are often attempts to get me to look at someone else's talk page. However, it's taken me a while to get to this point, and for the longest time I would be surprised that my name had been mentioned at WT:AN any time someone was actually mentioning me at WP:AN. Nyttend ( talk) 22:35, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
What it says on the tin. I've not looked at notifications, or clicked the "red number" at the top of my screen tonight; in fact, in another window, I still have a red box with "1" in it. I've been on my talk page twice, and the banner hasn't gone away. Risker ( talk) 03:11, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I have just got Matěj Suchánek vás zmínil v diskusi uživatele Editační filtr u „Filtr 38“. (mentioned you on talk page of user Editační filtr) notification for cs:Wikipedie:Editační filtr. Looking at MediaWiki:Notification-mention/cs this may be just caused by translation. Question is, are there different translate messages used for different namespaces or just (this?) one. --15:40, 11 February 2014 (UTC), Utar ( talk)
On Commons I just got the following notification: "[Username] thanked you for your edit on [No page]." I have redacted the Username as I doubt it's important (it was a regular user's username) but the [No page] is what Commons told me; the notification did not link to any page. Perhaps it got deleted? If so, the link should still take me to the deleted page, and the name should be saved. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
The current prasing of mention notifications is "[User] mentioned you on the [pagename] talk page in [section]". This is fine for article talk pages, but sounds weird for user talk pages. We wouldn't usually refer to my talk page as "the Hhhippo talk page". I think it would be better to say "the talk page of [pagename]".
Additional confusion might occur if [pagename] is a common word, so it might be better to add some wikilinks: "the talk page of Doom" looks better than "the talk page of Doom".
I'm undecided about inclusion of namespaces: surely "the talk page of WikiProject Physics" is better than "the talk page of WikiPedia:WikiProject Physics". On the other hand, in cases where the same pagename exists in several namespaces (main, category, user...), it might be more clear if the namespace is mentioned. — HHHIPPO 09:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Are there any plans to make this feature more customizable? As an admin working in files, I do a lot of deletions where a bot, usually AnomieBOT closes the discussion at WP:FFD or WP:PUF for me after the file is deleted. Sometimes there are 4-5 files, but other times there are 20+ files that get closed. Every time the bot closes the discussion I get a notification. There are times, like just a bit ago, where I had over 20 notifications from 2 pages just because of closures. It would sure be swell if I could turn of that specific bot, or all bots in general. Cheers, TLSuda ( talk) 02:11, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
I have added an 'echo' option to {{ User notification preference}}. John Vandenberg ( chat) 13:37, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
When I logged in earlier today I was informed I had 31 notifications. My first reaction was that this was some kind of bug but then I realized the notifications were the result of many of my edits having been reverted by one single editor. I was in a hurry at the time and did not check carefully and missed the fact that buried in the same pile of notifications were:
I don't think (not sure) that I was informed of this by the system.
Has anyone encountered this type of situation before? What should I have done? Thanks in advance, X Ottawahitech ( talk) 02:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm concerned that I'm receiving messages telling me that an edit was reverted when in fact it was undone. There are significant procedural differences between these two actions, and cases where "undo" is acceptable but "revert" is not. I recognize that, technically, there is little that differentiates these two processes. However, is there any chance that the messages can actually say what button was actually used (i.e. "undone" or "reverted") rather than just defaulting to "reverted"? Since reversion is considered a fairly aggressive editing action compared to "undo", it unnecessarily escalates situations. Risker ( talk) 14:45, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I recently attended an edit-a-thon which brought some brand new users to Wikipedia. Something I noticed more than once is that these users paid no attention to "echo" and I had to point it out to them as I was hovering over their shoulders for editing tasks.
I typically contact a fair number of IPs and new users with talk page messages to explain what's going on. In the case of these new users at the edit-a-thon, the notifications were only for welcomes on their talk pages. If, however, they were unwittingly causing harm or breaking some consensus about content they would have never become aware until they were blocked. Those notifications are the only way the community can reach out to the individual user who's not paying attention to their e-mail inbox.
I would ask that the OBOD be brought back as a default for new accounts and for IPs so they quickly understand how to communicate with the community. Chris Troutman ( talk) 04:12, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Moved to Bugzilla. — Scott • talk 14:03, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to leave this message, but I just wanted to say that notifications are really great! Couldn't live without them now, especially the Ping feature. So: You're awesome, guys! -- Gnom ( talk) 21:26, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering, is it possible to get notifications for selected usergroups? Was thinking notifications if a page you deleted gets recreated, a page you protected gets unprotected, or a user you blocked is unblocked (or possibly even a user you blocked requests unblock, if this is technically possible), would be awesome. No idea how this works technically so no idea if it's possible or even desirable, but just thought I'd share my ideas on the topic. Notifications are fantastic, I just thought I'd mention! :) Daniel ( talk) 10:20, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
It would be incredible for me if echo would allow me to add a small number of pages to it as a super watchlist. I have many thousands of pages on my watchlist but I can easily pick under ten pages that I would especially want to be informed about changes to in a more direct manner that would not allow me to miss them. Notifications would make a great facility for this, were it feasible. Say every user gets three pages they can add to their "Select Notifications Watchlist®℠". Possible? Any interest? Impossible, FO?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:17, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I have a question about this sentence: "Note that the post containing a link to a userpage must be signed; if the edit does not add a new signature to the page, no notification will be sent."
I'm just checking that I've understood this, because I think I've been doing it wrong. Does it mean that if I write: "I hope Susan will comment here," and save, but forget to link to Susan, I can't go back and link to her name? Instead I have to re-sign the post, or post a ping underneath with a second signature. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:15, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I know there's an orange box at the top of the page explaining this. But I've just had this for the first time and it is annoying. Plan to resolve this issue, please. — Scott • talk 17:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
I couldn't find any solid information about this anywhere, save for another confused Wikipedian here, so here it goes: I've been around on Wikipedia for a while and while I may not have thousands upon thousands of contributions, I like to think that my reputation is decent. I was kind of insulted, then, when I received a notification that User:Fralambert, someone who is prominent mainly on the French wiki, had reviewed my English-language article. Where would he have seen the notification flagging my article for review, and why was it flagged in the first place if I am not a novice? These questions ought to be answered somewhere in the documentation, along with a clearer summary of what reviewing is about. - Sweet Nightmares 14:32, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I think I may have found the culprit. The review occurred on Wikidata as seen here, so maybe it's not entirely appropriate that it says "Cherry River (Quebec) was reviewed by Fralambert" on the notification. - Sweet Nightmares 15:48, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, I was pinged from a DYK page by User:GabrielF.
That ping wasn't correctly done, so GabrielF promptly fixed it in this edit. But it ever showed up in my notification list.
GabrielF eventually notified me the old-fashioned way (via a message on my talk). But shouldn't the ping have worked? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:50, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
I didn't get a notification for
this mention. Is it because
OwenBlacker's sig doesn't contain any direct links, only indirect links through an
interlanguage link: [[:en:User:OwenBlacker|OwenBlacker]] [[:en:User talk:OwenBlacker|Talk]]
? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
In the last few days, I've experienced notifications coming in two separate pages. When someone thanks me, I get a "1" replacing the "0" as normal, but when I click the "1", I get a dropdown that only talks about times when people mention me in a comment. At the top is a little Messages (0) • Alerts (0) (that's how it looks now, with no notifications), and I have to click the Alerts to see what's happening. When did this change, and why? It's almost impossible to read the tiny "Alerts" text, and it took me a good while to discover that I wasn't being re-pinged just because someone mentioned me in a talk page several days before. This definitely doesn't seem as helpful for new users, since they have to click two times, not one, to learn what's going on. Even for someone experienced like me, it's confusing, and I personally don't find it a positive change, since I'd like to have everything together. Is there a way I can undo this? I've looked over my preferences, but there's no relevant preference, and I've checked Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ, only to find that it displays the original unified list rather than the split-in-two list. Nyttend ( talk) 22:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Tangentially, you (and anyone else reading this) might be interested in ( WP:VPI#Can we have a color scheme for the notifications count, please, and, if not, perhaps some other color than red?) this ongoing discussion. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 23:42, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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It appears every time I use {{ Motorcycling invite}}, and unconected user gets pinged. See User_talk:Dennis_Bratland#Weird. I assume they'll get pinged again here. I don't know if this happens when other people use the template. Anyone know to do? -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 02:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Marked resolved, as I see at your talkpage that the transcluded culprit was deduced, thanks to Redrose64. :) Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 23:48, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I want to agree that the red colour of the notifications is very hostile! I think that's a well-establised reality, why red is used here for redlinks, traffic lights are red to indicate 'stop', and reviews of papers in universities and schools are given in red. I wish I could either change it my preferences, or that it would be blue or green. This would also be more consistent with the general colour scheme of WP. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:23, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I have found myself on a work-related wikibreak the last few weeks. During my break the notifications feature has in one case made it possible for me to notice an AfD I'd contributed to had been put up for DRV and then relisted and in another case allowed me to see suggestions made by other editors with which I could assist. I'll confess that even when I'm on wikibreak I still check my watchlist most days, but because of this feature, I noticed important conversations which wouldn't otherwise be brought to my attention. My sincere appreciation to those who labor long for the benefit of users like myself. BusterD ( talk) 00:49, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
I had a notification that someone reverted my edits but then they undid the revert. [30] Can this undoing of a revert be set to delete my notification? Is this already a bug tracked in Bugzilla? Thanks. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 11:36, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
I do not see it reported anywhere, so that it might be useful. I have just semiprotected an article ( Catherine Deveny), apparently not at the best version, and then another user reverted to one of the previous versions. I did not have any edits to the article except for the protection but I still got an echo notification that my edit (which was the protection) was reverted. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 10:47, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Is there a magic button to click that produces the notification template? If not, could someone create one? I'm forever mistyping – {[U|Username}}, and variations on that theme. It's not only annoying; if we save the typo the ping doesn't work even if we go back to fix it. A button in the ref toolbar would be wonderful. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:52, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
For example; if you add the following to your common.js file....
/* CharInsert specific */
window.charinsertDontMove = false;
window.editToolsRecall = true;
window.charinsertCustom = { User: ' | = {\{+}} [\[+|]] — Æ æ Œ œ <code><nowiki>+</nowiki></code> {\{ping|+}}' };
if(window.updateEditTools) window.updateEditTools();
Note: as the core .js gadget currently stands (without a blank 'User' menu option), the cookie remembering the last time you used that menu gets "lost" upon the next edit session. Regardless, to resolve this we added the empty 'User:' menu label for all editors by default over on Wikisource in spite of the questions surely to come and, slowly but surely, people started asking "why is the User: section empty" --> "How can I customize the User: section" and viola; folks have been adding their own custom tools (User:) with little effort ever since.
Hope that made sense -- George Orwell III ( talk) 03:32, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
// Add custom Character Inserter entries, to the end of the first 2 groupings
window.charinsertCustom = {
"Insert": ' Mention: {\{u|+}} {\{ping|+}}',
"Wiki markup": ' Mention: {\{u|+}} {\{ping|+}}'
};
<span.class="plainlinks">+</span>
<math>\\\\scriptstyle{+}</math>
.if(window.updateEditTools) window.updateEditTools();
) should no longer be needed. -- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
19:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
George Orwell III and Quiddity (WMF), I've just added this, and it works really well. Thank you! It will save a lot of fiddling around. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I repeatedly get notifications for when a page is linked to that is no longer on my watchlist. How can I alter which pages it notifies me about? Rcsprinter123 (jive) @ 11:56, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
As part of management of disruptive users, administrators sometimes block users using the interface described at mw:Help:Blocking users. Normally, the blocked user is allowed to edit their talk page for discussion and requesting unblocking, but otherwise cannot interfere with editors elsewhere on the encyclopedia. The notification mechanism provides a "loophole" such that a blocked user can ping users who otherwise may wish to disengage with them. Is there, or can there be, a mechanism to disable the sending of notifications by a blocked user? NE Ent 10:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Someone recently used {{u}} with my user name and I didn't get any notification. [31] -- Bob K31416 ( talk) 15:58, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Today, I saw a notification on the Turkish Wikipedia saying "Your edit on Hârizmî has been reverted by Mavrikant." including a link to
this diff. As it turns out, Mavrikant had reverted the article back to an earlier revision, before I edited it (see
here), so they actually undid multiple revisions. However, the section of the article that I edited
here was left unchanged. I'm not sure if this is something you're interested in, but I might as well report it just to be sure, right?
Kind regards,
Mathonius (
talk) 22:57, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
I've recently changed my signature from SlimVirgin to Sarah (SV). I'd like to make it easier for people to ping me by setting up User:Sarah (SV). Does anyone know whether I will be pinged if User:Sarah (SV) is a redirect to User:SlimVirgin? Or do I need to set up User:Sarah (SV) as a separate account, with my email address in the preferences? Sarah (SV) (talk) 18:12, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
-- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
18:51, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
May be useful to add to the notice "page is linked" link to diff (as it is in other notifications) which the link has been added? Without reference to the place / edit / action where the article was linked (including to understand whom it was made, or where cancel the "linking") this notification carries little information. -- Сунприат ( talk) 17:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't understand. How come I can have new messages but the little number box says "0"? Risker ( talk) 16:18, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to create timed notification? I.e. if somebody reviews GA nomination and puts article on holds for 7 days. It would be useful to have timed notification as some kind of reminder for both nominator and reviewer. -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 11:35, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Myself and
Favre1fan93 have been having issues with pings over the last few days. It started with him
pinging me at
this discussion, which I
never saw. I later
pinged him at
this discussion, which he
never saw. There's a good chance that none of the other three editors I pinged saw it, as none have replied to the thread (
TriiipleThreat especially would have chimed in). I also
pinged him on
my talk page, which he
also never saw. I don't know if this issue is exclusive to us, but I figured it was worth bringing up here.
Sock
(tock talk) 20:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
{{u|Example}}
→ [[User:Example|Example]]
{{ping|Example}}
→ <span class="template-ping">@[[:User:Example|Example]]:</span>
{{
ping}}
is a redirect to {{
reply to}}
, as is {{
replyto}}
, the third of which I used above (and in many other places with success). Therefore, if {{
replyto}}
works as intended, which it apparently does, {{
ping}}
should work identically; and indeed,
this edit notified me - it used {{
ping}}
, and so it was expanded to <span class="template-ping">@[[:User:Redrose64|Redrose64]]:</span>
No ping from this. Any reason why? -- NeilN talk to me 01:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Two pings: [32], [33]. Only the first resulted in a notification. -- NeilN talk to me 15:01, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
No ping with this. -- NeilN talk to me 04:15, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
The devs are looking into this, at phab:T78424. Thanks for continuing to compile missing pings, as you notice them. -- Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:38, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Most/All mention-errors should be fixed now, with code pushed to all wikis ~3 hours ago. Please keep an eye out, and ping me with any newer instances of problems. (And thanks again for all the details so far). -- Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible for us to configure things in such a way that users are automatically notified when a new issue of the Signpost is released? We're currently investigating ways that we can make reading and getting the Signpost easier and more relevant for our readers, and this seems like a perfect replacement for the archaic subscription system—not that many people want to have their page canvassed weekly, after all. Res Mar 15:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Why are reverted edits included in alert notifications and enabled by default? A sudden notification of a revert by another editor feels like a slap on the face, and only serves to encourage or even increase the speed of edit warring between editors. I have changed my own settings, but please reconsider the default settings. - Mailer Diablo 22:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Is there any way to check the pings that I've sent, e.g. is it recorded in a log anywhere? Every now and then I find myself wanting to make sure that I did in fact notify someone. Sunrise The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 23:14, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
I had one user notify me. The box at the top of the page next to my username is red with a 1 in it. I click on it and go to the place where I was notified. The box should change back to 0 and become gray. It doesn't - still red, still with a 1 in it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
What the header says. I had a notification on the desktop version but not on mobile. I am using a phone with chrome. So, when I switch between the two, only the desktop one displays that I have a notification. — DangerousJXD ( talk) 08:01, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Quiddity (WMF), and anyone else who can help: I've just pinged several people to take part in an AN/I discussion, and two have already said they didn't receive them, so now I have no confidence in the others (but don't want to re-ping in case I bother them).
I've noticed this before when pinging multiple people using {{ ping}} or being pinged that way. I restricted it to six or seven names (the instructions say seven). Could it be that the template doesn't handle as many names as the page says, or am I using it incorrectly? Sarah (SV) (talk) 22:44, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
templates there are (although each use has its own maximum of seven names) - what matters is the total number of different users that you linked. In this case, the first, second and fourth {{
ping}}
each list seven people; and the third, fifth and sixth each list six people, for a total of 39. The limit is 20, see
my comment here and the edit
immediately after for a way of notifying 21+. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 08:51, 20 May 2015 (UTC)For the past few days, whenever I click on the "you have new messages" link, I am sent to User_talk:Nikkimaria#footer, no matter where on the page the new message happens to be. Previously the link went to the actual section containing the new message, which was far preferable. Has this changed for everyone, and if so can we change it back? Nikkimaria ( talk) 02:20, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create something like reminder at notifications? For example, I would like to remind myself, that on May X I need to update Y article or do something else. And users could make such reminders at their preferences.
I kind of tried something similar (for another user) with ifeq, but of course it didn't worked. But I was pretty sure it wouldn't. So the code was something like {{#ifeq:{{CURRENTDAY}}|10|this ping --~~~}}~
--
Edgars2007 (
talk/
contribs) 14:53, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
*{{#ifexpr:{{#time:U}}>{{#time:U|12:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)}}|Do it NOW!!!|(don't do it yet)}}
Is there any way to disable the notification count at the top of the screen? I get email notifications, so to also get those is just a distraction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarahTehCat ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there some issue with the job queue and notifications of links made to articles one has created? I created the article Place du Châtelet and recently someone added it to Template:Visitor attractions in Paris with this edit. I am now getting notifications either as the job queue increments or as people edit articles that contain this template, such as this edit. Is that expected behaviour? Is there no way to separate out actions prompted by a template call, as opposed to a direct link added to an article? Carcharoth ( talk) 12:25, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Some time ago I created a page in response to WP:WANTED - for a publisher I'm not the least interested in, just as a public service. Unfortunately for me, they seem to have published the key encyclopedia about German submarines, and the page is still being linked again and again in references (though of course from an Encyclopedia point of view I'm delighted that so many references now have a blue link instead of a red one). I'm getting fed up with seeing that I've got a notification and finding that it's just this one again. Is there any way I can tag that page which I created so that it doesn't trigger a notification when linked to, while I still get notifications for other,more interesting, pages? If not, I hereby suggest it as an enhancement! Pam D 16:49, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
In the same what that Wikipedia-notifications has a notification for "[article you created] was linked from [another article]", it would be really useful (for some people) to have a notification on Commons for "a file that you uploaded has been used in a Wikipedia article". Having an image you uploaded actually USED (not just the file-page edited) is one of the most motivating things about Commons, but there's no way to be notified when it happens. Yes, there's tools like GLAMorous that give you a category-based view of usage on the various projects, but nothing that alerts you when something happens. Obviously it would need to be able to be turned-off, especially for people who do LOTS of uploads. But for people like me who do GLAM partnerships - it's really motivating (for me, and for the content-partner) to know who is using what files, where, and when. Witty lama 11:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
This morning I received a notification that "Viriditas mentioned you on the Viriditas talk page in "Spiegelman".
2 hours ago | View changes". The "View changes" link goes to this diff, which does not mention me; Viriditas' only other to that section also does not mention me, I'm not mentioned anywhere else on the page, and as far as I can tell the last mention of me on that page was archived in February. Why am I getting notified for this? Nikkimaria ( talk) 11:31, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Don't know if it's technically possible, but came up with an idea. If user pings some bot account, then show the notification for bot operator, because some unexperienced users doesn't know this whole system of bots etc. And I suppose bot operators doesn't frequently log-in their bot accounts (in Wikipedia). -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 10:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was a notification RSS feed to keep track of it! Pikolas ( talk) 02:05, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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If I link to some user by putting {{subst:U
or something like that, does it still show up on their notifications as a mention?
Rcsprinter
(converse) @ 20:33, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, it would be nice to get a notification (on Commons) if one of my photos that I uploaded to Commons is added to any article in any wiki. A “page link” feature for images. Thanks, ---- Stefan »Στέφανος« ‽ 16:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Could you please notify editors via their red dot when someone emails them via Special:EmailUser? Cheers. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 12:44, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the discussion on unbundling page creator notifications has been deleted with no visible resolution? Meclee ( talk) 19:03, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
I really like receiving page link notifications on an article I created, Social network, because so many editors link to it inappropriately (usually referring to Social networking services). However, it's painful to logon and see a notification that one specific article AND a bunch of other unspecified articles have been linked to Social network with no way for me to determine which of several hundred linked articles have been recently linked to Social network. I'm wondering if the notifications could be changed so that each individual article linked has a separate, specific notification? Thanks to all who have worked on the notification project. For the most part, it's been a positive addition to WP! Meclee ( talk) 23:37, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
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I've submitted your feature request as bugzilla:59005. HTH. – Quiddity ( talk) 20:08, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Is this possible? I ask because I am 'thanked' for my edits on the main page on a more-then-daily basis. It would be helpfull if I could, for instance, put a __NOTHANKS__ on the page. — Edokter ( talk) — 11:10, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
Lets say someone leaves a message on your talk page and you reply back to them on your own user page. Does the other user get a notification? Techman224 Talk 03:51, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
The first (creating) entry in a page's history doesn't have a "thank" link. Can that be arranged? I'd like to be able to thank people for starting an article, essay, etc. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 16:30, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
On it.wp, the question mark in the flyout, when clicked, redirects to mw:Help:Notifications. I want to find out where I can change this to mw:Help:Notifications/it. The reason is simple, there are probably more Italian speakers than non-Italian speakers clicking on that specific link, and, especially if they are newbies, they certainly have not set Italian as their language in the Preferences on that site. So the correct page would be a click away from them, and other users have suggested that this should change. Thanks for your help, -- Elitre ( talk) 19:10, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I have had three notifications, each described as 'MarnetteD left a message on your talk page in "Your revert of The Rescue".' however, the three edits that were linked ( [1], [2], [3]) were all to a section named User talk:Redrose64#Is mass rollback possible?, which is the one following. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 11:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Something has misfired in the notification function. I got a notification that says "Mark Miller mentioned you on the Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Freedom from Want (painting)/1 talk page in "Freedom from Want (painting)", but there is no hint of any such mention there. -- Orlady ( talk) 15:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
I promised to do this the best part of six months ago and never got around to it - apologies! But here's a start...
The notifications page as currently written is essentially an announcement of a new tool, but I think we're past that stage and into "business as usual". I've redrafted the page to focus more on current use rather than requests for feedback, and there's a draft here - any thoughts? Are people happy to switch to the new version? Andrew Gray ( talk) 18:34, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
I note that the font size used for the subheading in Notifications is microscopic (as evident on
screenshot. To my shock, I doscover that all font-sizes are set in px, with the subheaders (.mw-echo-timestamp
and .mw-echo-notification-footer
) being set to 9px. With accessibility in mind, this is just way too small. I'm not going to explain why using px is not a good practice to begin with, but can you please bump the font size of the above classes to 11px (and make sure nothing else uses anything lower then 11px)? —
Edokter (
talk) — 11:53, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm not too sure whether this is planned or not, but having got a thank you for an edit, I felt it seemed wrong to have the notification badge turn red. I do not associate the colour red with being thanked, rather, the colour green (which just so happens to the colour of the smiling icon of the thanking). I do not know whether this is possible or within the coding, but I would much prefer it if the notification badge turns green when I get a thank you, and did a similar thing for other types of notifications. So to sum up this idea:
Is there any chance of this function being expanded to allow any article or redirect of my choosing? There are many disambiguation pages and misspellings that I would like to receive notifications for. For example, I have the initial edit on the article Critically Endangered, which I would imagine could be useful for a biology editor to receive linked from notifications, yet I'm the only person on the site who benefits from it. — Xezbeth ( talk) 11:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
I would appreciate any input to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Editor review#Non-Requested Review ?. Maybe the notification for (user) page reviews could be updated. benzband ( talk) 23:45, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
What about some option to enable global notifications from every wiki? Is it possible? Dominikmatus ( talk) 01:52, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
If i mention and link to a user in an edit summary will it trigger a notification. If it doesn't it would be handy if it could. Blethering Scot 21:06, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I believe that the template notification system doesn't work in template space. At least one other editor told me my pings to them were unseen, and recently I noticed that my name was mentioned at
Template:Did you know nominations/Émile Coulaudon and I as not notified. Perhaps this is because the tool was not intended to work in non-talk spaces - alas, there are a number of places in the project where non-talk spaces are used for talk (some templates, more on Wikipedia: spaces...). --
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here 13:58, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
Something happens, I get an e-mail and a notification. I see the e-mail first, and view the relevant page. Notification doesn't deactivate automatically. Please, even if it is a logic problem like this, look into it; it's a noisy behaviour. -- Gryllida ( talk) 15:07, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. If you are one of the 62 editors who experienced the Notifications bug today, but haven't found any of the relevant threads discussing it, please see the various ways to fix it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Accidental ping. Thanks, and sorry for the distraction and inconvenience. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 02:14, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
While looking at a page in mobile view just now I received a notification. However, after tapping the indicator and being taken to the notifications page, no new notification was visible there. Switching to desktop view revealed that I should have seen a notification of posts being made on my talk page. — Scott • talk 11:37, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
It might be interesting to have that .. especially since "Article feedback – My watched pages" doesn't seem to be working. -- 签名 sig at 17:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello. The default colour of the notification badge is grey, which looks a bit dull. How about using green 0 as the default colour (as opposed to red, when there are notifications)? It may look better. Zhaofeng Li [ talk... contribs... 13:40, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
I think that the default settings for notifications should be less aggressive. (I tend to only include things in main space; notification of mentions is a bit weird since if they want they will look at a discussion anyway: I would only notify them when they create a new discussion.) -- Gryllida ( talk) 10:36, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
In other words: include a setting for me to be notified of new items I create, but not of every edit to them. -- Gryllida ( talk) 10:37, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I posted a while back about something somewhat similar but here's a new wrinkle. I've been constantly getting notifications that "Indietronica was linked from X". Seemed to be the same issue as last time. As was explained to me then, once a page I had on my watchlist was added to some template or category, I would receive a notification whenever the pages containing that template were purged or edited. Annoying but I can live with it. However, this time when it was happening, I removed the page from my watchlist. That removal was more than a month ago and I've gotten two dozen notifications since then (the last earlier today).-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 03:05, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Notifications doesn't seem to be using Czech names of groups of EP extension. Those messages for EP have been translated via translatewiki.net and are (already for some time) at 100 % done.
I have received a notification Nyní patříte do této skupiny: eponline. (You are now assigned into group: eponline.) while the right form should be something like Nyní patříte do této skupiny: Online dobrovolníci kurzu. (You are now assigned into group: Online volunteers.).
Tracking down Notifation message which is causing this I have found: MediaWiki:Notification-user-rights-add. So, in short, my request is this: can you change parameter $1 for that message so it recognizes full (translated) names of EP groups too? I assume it currently does so for other groups like autoconfirmed and admin users. If it doesn't make it, if possible, write full names for all groups. Thanks in advance --13:17, 7 February 2014 (UTC), Utar ( talk)
It seems like a notification icon in one Web-browser window doesn't notice when I read it in another window. So, if I open 2 windows, read the notification in one, and then close that window, I will see an apparently unread notification in the other window. This is very confusing… I'd appreciate if it could be filed as a bug somehow. Thanks! :) Goldenshimmer ( talk) 17:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
I think it would be nice if there was an "Ignore editors" list. Essentially, all editors on this list delimited by linefeeds would be ignored and would not notify me when those editors do the various things that generally ping me on Echo. This would help editors who are under an IBAN and are supposed to not interact with others from being baited, ect.--v/r - T P 07:46, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
If I click on the "Thank" link in the heading of a diff, the system asks me if I want to thank that editor, so I can confirm or not. That's fine. But if I'm looking at diffs on my mobile phone and accidentally hit the huge green "Thank" button which is in the bottom right corner very near to my phone's "back" button, there's no such safeguard. That's a problem. Please ensure that mobile users are protected from accidental thanking. Pam D 08:09, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Whenever I get a notification of a mention, it always says that I got mentioned on the talk page, even when it wasn't. For example, this edit gave me a notification reading
Ansh666 mentioned you on the Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents talk page in "Suggestion to close thread..."
I've learned to ignore "talk page" in the message, since most of my notifications are messages on my own talk page, and the exceptions are often attempts to get me to look at someone else's talk page. However, it's taken me a while to get to this point, and for the longest time I would be surprised that my name had been mentioned at WT:AN any time someone was actually mentioning me at WP:AN. Nyttend ( talk) 22:35, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
What it says on the tin. I've not looked at notifications, or clicked the "red number" at the top of my screen tonight; in fact, in another window, I still have a red box with "1" in it. I've been on my talk page twice, and the banner hasn't gone away. Risker ( talk) 03:11, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I have just got Matěj Suchánek vás zmínil v diskusi uživatele Editační filtr u „Filtr 38“. (mentioned you on talk page of user Editační filtr) notification for cs:Wikipedie:Editační filtr. Looking at MediaWiki:Notification-mention/cs this may be just caused by translation. Question is, are there different translate messages used for different namespaces or just (this?) one. --15:40, 11 February 2014 (UTC), Utar ( talk)
On Commons I just got the following notification: "[Username] thanked you for your edit on [No page]." I have redacted the Username as I doubt it's important (it was a regular user's username) but the [No page] is what Commons told me; the notification did not link to any page. Perhaps it got deleted? If so, the link should still take me to the deleted page, and the name should be saved. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:22, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
The current prasing of mention notifications is "[User] mentioned you on the [pagename] talk page in [section]". This is fine for article talk pages, but sounds weird for user talk pages. We wouldn't usually refer to my talk page as "the Hhhippo talk page". I think it would be better to say "the talk page of [pagename]".
Additional confusion might occur if [pagename] is a common word, so it might be better to add some wikilinks: "the talk page of Doom" looks better than "the talk page of Doom".
I'm undecided about inclusion of namespaces: surely "the talk page of WikiProject Physics" is better than "the talk page of WikiPedia:WikiProject Physics". On the other hand, in cases where the same pagename exists in several namespaces (main, category, user...), it might be more clear if the namespace is mentioned. — HHHIPPO 09:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Are there any plans to make this feature more customizable? As an admin working in files, I do a lot of deletions where a bot, usually AnomieBOT closes the discussion at WP:FFD or WP:PUF for me after the file is deleted. Sometimes there are 4-5 files, but other times there are 20+ files that get closed. Every time the bot closes the discussion I get a notification. There are times, like just a bit ago, where I had over 20 notifications from 2 pages just because of closures. It would sure be swell if I could turn of that specific bot, or all bots in general. Cheers, TLSuda ( talk) 02:11, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
I have added an 'echo' option to {{ User notification preference}}. John Vandenberg ( chat) 13:37, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
When I logged in earlier today I was informed I had 31 notifications. My first reaction was that this was some kind of bug but then I realized the notifications were the result of many of my edits having been reverted by one single editor. I was in a hurry at the time and did not check carefully and missed the fact that buried in the same pile of notifications were:
I don't think (not sure) that I was informed of this by the system.
Has anyone encountered this type of situation before? What should I have done? Thanks in advance, X Ottawahitech ( talk) 02:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm concerned that I'm receiving messages telling me that an edit was reverted when in fact it was undone. There are significant procedural differences between these two actions, and cases where "undo" is acceptable but "revert" is not. I recognize that, technically, there is little that differentiates these two processes. However, is there any chance that the messages can actually say what button was actually used (i.e. "undone" or "reverted") rather than just defaulting to "reverted"? Since reversion is considered a fairly aggressive editing action compared to "undo", it unnecessarily escalates situations. Risker ( talk) 14:45, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I recently attended an edit-a-thon which brought some brand new users to Wikipedia. Something I noticed more than once is that these users paid no attention to "echo" and I had to point it out to them as I was hovering over their shoulders for editing tasks.
I typically contact a fair number of IPs and new users with talk page messages to explain what's going on. In the case of these new users at the edit-a-thon, the notifications were only for welcomes on their talk pages. If, however, they were unwittingly causing harm or breaking some consensus about content they would have never become aware until they were blocked. Those notifications are the only way the community can reach out to the individual user who's not paying attention to their e-mail inbox.
I would ask that the OBOD be brought back as a default for new accounts and for IPs so they quickly understand how to communicate with the community. Chris Troutman ( talk) 04:12, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Moved to Bugzilla. — Scott • talk 14:03, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to leave this message, but I just wanted to say that notifications are really great! Couldn't live without them now, especially the Ping feature. So: You're awesome, guys! -- Gnom ( talk) 21:26, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering, is it possible to get notifications for selected usergroups? Was thinking notifications if a page you deleted gets recreated, a page you protected gets unprotected, or a user you blocked is unblocked (or possibly even a user you blocked requests unblock, if this is technically possible), would be awesome. No idea how this works technically so no idea if it's possible or even desirable, but just thought I'd share my ideas on the topic. Notifications are fantastic, I just thought I'd mention! :) Daniel ( talk) 10:20, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
It would be incredible for me if echo would allow me to add a small number of pages to it as a super watchlist. I have many thousands of pages on my watchlist but I can easily pick under ten pages that I would especially want to be informed about changes to in a more direct manner that would not allow me to miss them. Notifications would make a great facility for this, were it feasible. Say every user gets three pages they can add to their "Select Notifications Watchlist®℠". Possible? Any interest? Impossible, FO?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 23:17, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
I have a question about this sentence: "Note that the post containing a link to a userpage must be signed; if the edit does not add a new signature to the page, no notification will be sent."
I'm just checking that I've understood this, because I think I've been doing it wrong. Does it mean that if I write: "I hope Susan will comment here," and save, but forget to link to Susan, I can't go back and link to her name? Instead I have to re-sign the post, or post a ping underneath with a second signature. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:15, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I know there's an orange box at the top of the page explaining this. But I've just had this for the first time and it is annoying. Plan to resolve this issue, please. — Scott • talk 17:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
I couldn't find any solid information about this anywhere, save for another confused Wikipedian here, so here it goes: I've been around on Wikipedia for a while and while I may not have thousands upon thousands of contributions, I like to think that my reputation is decent. I was kind of insulted, then, when I received a notification that User:Fralambert, someone who is prominent mainly on the French wiki, had reviewed my English-language article. Where would he have seen the notification flagging my article for review, and why was it flagged in the first place if I am not a novice? These questions ought to be answered somewhere in the documentation, along with a clearer summary of what reviewing is about. - Sweet Nightmares 14:32, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
I think I may have found the culprit. The review occurred on Wikidata as seen here, so maybe it's not entirely appropriate that it says "Cherry River (Quebec) was reviewed by Fralambert" on the notification. - Sweet Nightmares 15:48, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
In this edit, I was pinged from a DYK page by User:GabrielF.
That ping wasn't correctly done, so GabrielF promptly fixed it in this edit. But it ever showed up in my notification list.
GabrielF eventually notified me the old-fashioned way (via a message on my talk). But shouldn't the ping have worked? -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:50, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
I didn't get a notification for
this mention. Is it because
OwenBlacker's sig doesn't contain any direct links, only indirect links through an
interlanguage link: [[:en:User:OwenBlacker|OwenBlacker]] [[:en:User talk:OwenBlacker|Talk]]
? --
Redrose64 (
talk) 20:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
In the last few days, I've experienced notifications coming in two separate pages. When someone thanks me, I get a "1" replacing the "0" as normal, but when I click the "1", I get a dropdown that only talks about times when people mention me in a comment. At the top is a little Messages (0) • Alerts (0) (that's how it looks now, with no notifications), and I have to click the Alerts to see what's happening. When did this change, and why? It's almost impossible to read the tiny "Alerts" text, and it took me a good while to discover that I wasn't being re-pinged just because someone mentioned me in a talk page several days before. This definitely doesn't seem as helpful for new users, since they have to click two times, not one, to learn what's going on. Even for someone experienced like me, it's confusing, and I personally don't find it a positive change, since I'd like to have everything together. Is there a way I can undo this? I've looked over my preferences, but there's no relevant preference, and I've checked Wikipedia:Notifications/FAQ, only to find that it displays the original unified list rather than the split-in-two list. Nyttend ( talk) 22:37, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
Tangentially, you (and anyone else reading this) might be interested in ( WP:VPI#Can we have a color scheme for the notifications count, please, and, if not, perhaps some other color than red?) this ongoing discussion. Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 23:42, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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It appears every time I use {{ Motorcycling invite}}, and unconected user gets pinged. See User_talk:Dennis_Bratland#Weird. I assume they'll get pinged again here. I don't know if this happens when other people use the template. Anyone know to do? -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 02:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Marked resolved, as I see at your talkpage that the transcluded culprit was deduced, thanks to Redrose64. :) Quiddity (WMF) ( talk) 23:48, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
I want to agree that the red colour of the notifications is very hostile! I think that's a well-establised reality, why red is used here for redlinks, traffic lights are red to indicate 'stop', and reviews of papers in universities and schools are given in red. I wish I could either change it my preferences, or that it would be blue or green. This would also be more consistent with the general colour scheme of WP. -- Tom (LT) ( talk) 22:23, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
I have found myself on a work-related wikibreak the last few weeks. During my break the notifications feature has in one case made it possible for me to notice an AfD I'd contributed to had been put up for DRV and then relisted and in another case allowed me to see suggestions made by other editors with which I could assist. I'll confess that even when I'm on wikibreak I still check my watchlist most days, but because of this feature, I noticed important conversations which wouldn't otherwise be brought to my attention. My sincere appreciation to those who labor long for the benefit of users like myself. BusterD ( talk) 00:49, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
I had a notification that someone reverted my edits but then they undid the revert. [30] Can this undoing of a revert be set to delete my notification? Is this already a bug tracked in Bugzilla? Thanks. Biosthmors ( talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{ U}}) while signing a reply, thx 11:36, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
I do not see it reported anywhere, so that it might be useful. I have just semiprotected an article ( Catherine Deveny), apparently not at the best version, and then another user reverted to one of the previous versions. I did not have any edits to the article except for the protection but I still got an echo notification that my edit (which was the protection) was reverted. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 10:47, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Is there a magic button to click that produces the notification template? If not, could someone create one? I'm forever mistyping – {[U|Username}}, and variations on that theme. It's not only annoying; if we save the typo the ping doesn't work even if we go back to fix it. A button in the ref toolbar would be wonderful. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:52, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
For example; if you add the following to your common.js file....
/* CharInsert specific */
window.charinsertDontMove = false;
window.editToolsRecall = true;
window.charinsertCustom = { User: ' | = {\{+}} [\[+|]] — Æ æ Œ œ <code><nowiki>+</nowiki></code> {\{ping|+}}' };
if(window.updateEditTools) window.updateEditTools();
Note: as the core .js gadget currently stands (without a blank 'User' menu option), the cookie remembering the last time you used that menu gets "lost" upon the next edit session. Regardless, to resolve this we added the empty 'User:' menu label for all editors by default over on Wikisource in spite of the questions surely to come and, slowly but surely, people started asking "why is the User: section empty" --> "How can I customize the User: section" and viola; folks have been adding their own custom tools (User:) with little effort ever since.
Hope that made sense -- George Orwell III ( talk) 03:32, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
// Add custom Character Inserter entries, to the end of the first 2 groupings
window.charinsertCustom = {
"Insert": ' Mention: {\{u|+}} {\{ping|+}}',
"Wiki markup": ' Mention: {\{u|+}} {\{ping|+}}'
};
<span.class="plainlinks">+</span>
<math>\\\\scriptstyle{+}</math>
.if(window.updateEditTools) window.updateEditTools();
) should no longer be needed. -- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
19:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
George Orwell III and Quiddity (WMF), I've just added this, and it works really well. Thank you! It will save a lot of fiddling around. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:47, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I repeatedly get notifications for when a page is linked to that is no longer on my watchlist. How can I alter which pages it notifies me about? Rcsprinter123 (jive) @ 11:56, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
As part of management of disruptive users, administrators sometimes block users using the interface described at mw:Help:Blocking users. Normally, the blocked user is allowed to edit their talk page for discussion and requesting unblocking, but otherwise cannot interfere with editors elsewhere on the encyclopedia. The notification mechanism provides a "loophole" such that a blocked user can ping users who otherwise may wish to disengage with them. Is there, or can there be, a mechanism to disable the sending of notifications by a blocked user? NE Ent 10:36, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Someone recently used {{u}} with my user name and I didn't get any notification. [31] -- Bob K31416 ( talk) 15:58, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Today, I saw a notification on the Turkish Wikipedia saying "Your edit on Hârizmî has been reverted by Mavrikant." including a link to
this diff. As it turns out, Mavrikant had reverted the article back to an earlier revision, before I edited it (see
here), so they actually undid multiple revisions. However, the section of the article that I edited
here was left unchanged. I'm not sure if this is something you're interested in, but I might as well report it just to be sure, right?
Kind regards,
Mathonius (
talk) 22:57, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
I've recently changed my signature from SlimVirgin to Sarah (SV). I'd like to make it easier for people to ping me by setting up User:Sarah (SV). Does anyone know whether I will be pinged if User:Sarah (SV) is a redirect to User:SlimVirgin? Or do I need to set up User:Sarah (SV) as a separate account, with my email address in the preferences? Sarah (SV) (talk) 18:12, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
-- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
talk}}
18:51, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
May be useful to add to the notice "page is linked" link to diff (as it is in other notifications) which the link has been added? Without reference to the place / edit / action where the article was linked (including to understand whom it was made, or where cancel the "linking") this notification carries little information. -- Сунприат ( talk) 17:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't understand. How come I can have new messages but the little number box says "0"? Risker ( talk) 16:18, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to create timed notification? I.e. if somebody reviews GA nomination and puts article on holds for 7 days. It would be useful to have timed notification as some kind of reminder for both nominator and reviewer. -- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 11:35, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Myself and
Favre1fan93 have been having issues with pings over the last few days. It started with him
pinging me at
this discussion, which I
never saw. I later
pinged him at
this discussion, which he
never saw. There's a good chance that none of the other three editors I pinged saw it, as none have replied to the thread (
TriiipleThreat especially would have chimed in). I also
pinged him on
my talk page, which he
also never saw. I don't know if this issue is exclusive to us, but I figured it was worth bringing up here.
Sock
(tock talk) 20:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
{{u|Example}}
→ [[User:Example|Example]]
{{ping|Example}}
→ <span class="template-ping">@[[:User:Example|Example]]:</span>
{{
ping}}
is a redirect to {{
reply to}}
, as is {{
replyto}}
, the third of which I used above (and in many other places with success). Therefore, if {{
replyto}}
works as intended, which it apparently does, {{
ping}}
should work identically; and indeed,
this edit notified me - it used {{
ping}}
, and so it was expanded to <span class="template-ping">@[[:User:Redrose64|Redrose64]]:</span>
No ping from this. Any reason why? -- NeilN talk to me 01:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Two pings: [32], [33]. Only the first resulted in a notification. -- NeilN talk to me 15:01, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
No ping with this. -- NeilN talk to me 04:15, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
The devs are looking into this, at phab:T78424. Thanks for continuing to compile missing pings, as you notice them. -- Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:38, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Most/All mention-errors should be fixed now, with code pushed to all wikis ~3 hours ago. Please keep an eye out, and ping me with any newer instances of problems. (And thanks again for all the details so far). -- Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible for us to configure things in such a way that users are automatically notified when a new issue of the Signpost is released? We're currently investigating ways that we can make reading and getting the Signpost easier and more relevant for our readers, and this seems like a perfect replacement for the archaic subscription system—not that many people want to have their page canvassed weekly, after all. Res Mar 15:31, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
Why are reverted edits included in alert notifications and enabled by default? A sudden notification of a revert by another editor feels like a slap on the face, and only serves to encourage or even increase the speed of edit warring between editors. I have changed my own settings, but please reconsider the default settings. - Mailer Diablo 22:52, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Is there any way to check the pings that I've sent, e.g. is it recorded in a log anywhere? Every now and then I find myself wanting to make sure that I did in fact notify someone. Sunrise The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 23:14, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
I had one user notify me. The box at the top of the page next to my username is red with a 1 in it. I click on it and go to the place where I was notified. The box should change back to 0 and become gray. It doesn't - still red, still with a 1 in it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 13:32, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
What the header says. I had a notification on the desktop version but not on mobile. I am using a phone with chrome. So, when I switch between the two, only the desktop one displays that I have a notification. — DangerousJXD ( talk) 08:01, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Quiddity (WMF), and anyone else who can help: I've just pinged several people to take part in an AN/I discussion, and two have already said they didn't receive them, so now I have no confidence in the others (but don't want to re-ping in case I bother them).
I've noticed this before when pinging multiple people using {{ ping}} or being pinged that way. I restricted it to six or seven names (the instructions say seven). Could it be that the template doesn't handle as many names as the page says, or am I using it incorrectly? Sarah (SV) (talk) 22:44, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
{{
ping}}
templates there are (although each use has its own maximum of seven names) - what matters is the total number of different users that you linked. In this case, the first, second and fourth {{
ping}}
each list seven people; and the third, fifth and sixth each list six people, for a total of 39. The limit is 20, see
my comment here and the edit
immediately after for a way of notifying 21+. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 08:51, 20 May 2015 (UTC)For the past few days, whenever I click on the "you have new messages" link, I am sent to User_talk:Nikkimaria#footer, no matter where on the page the new message happens to be. Previously the link went to the actual section containing the new message, which was far preferable. Has this changed for everyone, and if so can we change it back? Nikkimaria ( talk) 02:20, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create something like reminder at notifications? For example, I would like to remind myself, that on May X I need to update Y article or do something else. And users could make such reminders at their preferences.
I kind of tried something similar (for another user) with ifeq, but of course it didn't worked. But I was pretty sure it wouldn't. So the code was something like {{#ifeq:{{CURRENTDAY}}|10|this ping --~~~}}~
--
Edgars2007 (
talk/
contribs) 14:53, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
*{{#ifexpr:{{#time:U}}>{{#time:U|12:00, 22 May 2015 (UTC)}}|Do it NOW!!!|(don't do it yet)}}
Is there any way to disable the notification count at the top of the screen? I get email notifications, so to also get those is just a distraction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarahTehCat ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there some issue with the job queue and notifications of links made to articles one has created? I created the article Place du Châtelet and recently someone added it to Template:Visitor attractions in Paris with this edit. I am now getting notifications either as the job queue increments or as people edit articles that contain this template, such as this edit. Is that expected behaviour? Is there no way to separate out actions prompted by a template call, as opposed to a direct link added to an article? Carcharoth ( talk) 12:25, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Some time ago I created a page in response to WP:WANTED - for a publisher I'm not the least interested in, just as a public service. Unfortunately for me, they seem to have published the key encyclopedia about German submarines, and the page is still being linked again and again in references (though of course from an Encyclopedia point of view I'm delighted that so many references now have a blue link instead of a red one). I'm getting fed up with seeing that I've got a notification and finding that it's just this one again. Is there any way I can tag that page which I created so that it doesn't trigger a notification when linked to, while I still get notifications for other,more interesting, pages? If not, I hereby suggest it as an enhancement! Pam D 16:49, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
In the same what that Wikipedia-notifications has a notification for "[article you created] was linked from [another article]", it would be really useful (for some people) to have a notification on Commons for "a file that you uploaded has been used in a Wikipedia article". Having an image you uploaded actually USED (not just the file-page edited) is one of the most motivating things about Commons, but there's no way to be notified when it happens. Yes, there's tools like GLAMorous that give you a category-based view of usage on the various projects, but nothing that alerts you when something happens. Obviously it would need to be able to be turned-off, especially for people who do LOTS of uploads. But for people like me who do GLAM partnerships - it's really motivating (for me, and for the content-partner) to know who is using what files, where, and when. Witty lama 11:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
This morning I received a notification that "Viriditas mentioned you on the Viriditas talk page in "Spiegelman".
2 hours ago | View changes". The "View changes" link goes to this diff, which does not mention me; Viriditas' only other to that section also does not mention me, I'm not mentioned anywhere else on the page, and as far as I can tell the last mention of me on that page was archived in February. Why am I getting notified for this? Nikkimaria ( talk) 11:31, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
Don't know if it's technically possible, but came up with an idea. If user pings some bot account, then show the notification for bot operator, because some unexperienced users doesn't know this whole system of bots etc. And I suppose bot operators doesn't frequently log-in their bot accounts (in Wikipedia). -- Edgars2007 ( talk/ contribs) 10:52, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was a notification RSS feed to keep track of it! Pikolas ( talk) 02:05, 26 July 2015 (UTC)