Please make emails more friendly to other languages
Such links impossible to understand
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Such links impossible to understand
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | Wikinaut | T3932 [DO NOT USE] ENotif/EConfirm & further enhancements (tracking) [superseded by #MediaWiki-Email] | |||
| Open | None | T151016 Use HTML emails in EmailAuth | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T15303 Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki | ||
| Duplicate | None | T133764 Send normalised titles in notification email text instead of just percent-encoded URLs |
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@Sunpriat: Can you please describe which specific types of emails you refer to, and *how* to "make emails more friendly" and what exactly can help to "understand" links? Also see https://mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug for more information.
Currently the problem isn't well defined in this task, hence it is hard to find potential solutions. Thanks!
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- See the first link - here the article "article (specification)". The last bracket is not caught by link and link breaks down.
- For letters on change in the watch list you will receive an email from aliens - 50% consisting of "%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F"
The Wikipedia interface itself, we see links that can read people. For example tabs articl /discussion. We do not see the full link.
In a letter to come links which asks users to click, but you click on the "%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" and it is terrible and incomprehensible. It is impossible to read.
A short explanation above a large link not enough. Perhaps, for developers main language is English, and letter come to they without this "%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F".
It will be more convenient if the "%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" are hidden links, and links text contain normal, readable words.
<a href=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Служебная:Править_список_наблюдения </a>
or
<a href=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F> Служебная:Править_список_наблюдения </a>
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F
vs
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Служебная:Править_список_наблюдения
(https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Служебная:Править_список_наблюдения - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist)
This is a huge difference
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That is a bug in the email client used...
- For letters on change in the watch list you will receive an email from aliens - 50% [...]
It will be more convenient if the "%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F" are hidden links, and links text contain normal, readable words.
Regarding HTML mail that could be possible. Very likely not for plain text email...