Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/Community-level notifications/Proposal
- 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)