Email notifications

Email notifications

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Last edit: 17:32, 20 August 2012

I think that the current default settings for email notifications don't make much sense, it's easy to forget to change them assuming that they're what you would expect. I propose to switch to true by default:

  • "E-mail me on replies to a thread I am watching",
  • "Watch threads that I create or reply to",

currently both false. At some point in the future it would be nice to do the same for:

  • "Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist",
  • "E-mail me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed",

when the enotif change so that it's not too spammy to translators. Actually the first could be switched to true anyway, to make Special:Watchlist more useful: one never knows if a correction to someone else's translation will ever be seen by them in their watchlist if they happen to look at it (which mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Statistics and reporting suggests should happen)...

Code:

$wgDefaultUserOptions['lqt-watch-threads'] = 1; // Is this it? It's supposed to be true already https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/LiquidThreads.git;a=blob;f=LiquidThreads.php;h=ce78dd178aadccdba931ac35da64c27d7af95c3d;hb=HEAD#l288
$wgDefaultUserOptions['lqtnotifytalk'] = 1; // Niklas added this https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=translatewiki.git;a=blobdiff;f=TranslatewikiSettings.php;h=85babbfca49e6b12570e79f168a7b8f82da160dc;hp=2f13474494db6de7fbe70ca4547441892ec2f0e6;hb=f800719f61114db1f5fb54425cae100acec89365;hpb=be5777692bc4db94381600e6cc9e98d1fd9ff6c8
$wgDefaultUserOptions['watchcreations'] = 1;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['enotifwatchlistpages'] = 1;
Nemo (talk)05:20, 17 August 2012

If no objections I will add some of these.

Nike (talk)12:12, 17 August 2012