Users will be notified when someone tries to login but fails. Decide how to make them aware of this.
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- Mentioned Here
- T173888: LoginNotify not working for everyone apparently
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There's an announcement ready for translation here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/LoginNotify/Announce
However, this will be postponed a few weeks because of a performance issue.
Hi Johan, I want to propose a small wording tweak if it's not too late for that. Sorry, I should have caught this earlier.
Instead of
This means that you’ll get a notification every time you log in from a new device or IP address.
we want to say
This means that you’ll get an email every time you log in from a new device or IP address.
There's an issue with an unknown number of persons not getting the notifications. I'm holding back on further communication until we know how big this issue is, or have solved it.
Blocked by T173888. Still in Tech News, as it's live and people should know what's happening if they get the notification, but with an item saying it's not working for everyone yet.
I think we're pretty sure it's working now since everyone we tested with got notifications fine. I think this is good to go now and we can take out the line saying it's not working for everyone.
This has been
a) included in Tech News, will be distributed on Monday
b) posted on Wikipedia Village Pumps (or other suitable pages) in all languages we have translations for, including English
c) posted on wikimedia-l