Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/Community-level notifications
Community-level notifications
- Problem: Communities are thriving: they organize contests, they open large discussions, they gather and much more. These events are often gathered on a dedicated page for events that target the whole wiki, and at WikiProject pages for more specific events. Some other solutions are available; such as Watchlist notifications, or on-wiki newsletters; when a big project has to be announced, banners can be displayed.
However, the vast majority of users don't get the information: check on community consultations, where the ratio of active users versus participating users is pretty low.
Communication could be improved, using Echo notifications.
- Proposed solution: ** Create a notifications board for the community (that could replace pages listed at d:Q79790), and one -personal- for the user (on special:Notifications)
- Provide configurations so that Notifications can be submitted, reviewed, and delivered to each targeted user, given the topics, locations, interests, etc they've defined in their profile preferences.
- Provide settings so that a user can select which notifications to opt-in, opt-out or configure.
- Notifications should be tailored for each user profile, for instance:
- A user who can't participate in a community-bread consultation shouldn't be notified. But a Notification informing them of the fact that they now have the right to participate should be sent.
- Local in-person events should target users who opt-in for a given area.
- Who would benefit: Anyone involved in the community, wishing to be more involved in the community. Newcomers could also get these notifications at Special:Homepage where available.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Trizek from FR 16:00, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
- Probably a lot easier to implement with banners (CentralAuth) which already have such a management interface, just not a local one. If it has to be done with notifications, I feel this should go the large wishes section. --Tgr (talk) 03:51, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Perhaps mw:Extension:Newsletter could be installed on more wikis. See also Communicate local and global announcements through notifications rather than banners, a similar proposal that made it to voting. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:11, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
Voting
- Support Tgr (talk) 03:49, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Oppose I'm not convinced this is actually a problem - the people who are Metapedian enough to know and care about this sort of thing participate, and those who aren't don't. * Pppery * it has begun 04:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support This is an interesting concept that could use more workshopping. Community discussion and communication areas are historically spread across many venues, which can be difficult to discover. EpicPupper (talk) 05:22, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Grabado (talk) 09:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support As per @EricPupper. Doktor Züm (talk) 09:53, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Oltrepier (talk) 09:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Bluerasberry (talk) 15:20, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support --NGC 54 (talk|contribs) 21:37, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Betseg (talk) 04:12, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Trizek from FR 16:52, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Sadads (talk) 01:20, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- Ferien (talk) 20:26, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support This should be done to notify communities about issues. Thingofme (talk) 02:49, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Lightoil (talk) 03:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:24, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support cyrfaw (talk) 14:11, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:00, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support WhinyTheYounger (talk) 20:40, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Hans5958 (talk) 05:48, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Althair (talk) 16:40, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support. —— Eric Liu(Talk) 03:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)