Last modified: 2014-11-18 14:17:09 UTC
Throwing this here because this is an interesting idea. A Polish Wikipedia user suggested that Echo should provide notifications when user is sent an email via Special:Emailuser, since some people check Wikipedia more often than their mail :) Not sure how it would fit into Echo (e-mail notifications for this would have to be disabled, for example), but I'm filing the bug nevertheless. Please implement or WONTFIX :) (Suggested at https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dyskusja_wikipedysty:Matma_Rex&oldid=37492343#pytanie_.26_propozycja .)
What I'd recommend is more like: * add a sane user-to-user private messaging system that integrates with Echo, and so provides email and on-site notifications by default * kill Special:EmailUser with fire * redirect one to the other But adding echo notifications onto special:emailuser is probably an ok intermediate step. :)
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/250
This was suggested by someone on enwiki too, and I agree. Just as Mentions solves the need to use {{talkback}}, this feature would solve the need to use {{You've got mail}}. It's feature request #7 in the list of selected bugs and feature requests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notifications#Echo_-_selected_open_bugs_and_feature_requests)
