This may not be needed given how the Notifications system already handles mass notifications.
There may be a use case where someone can spam their edit summaries with usernames simply to trigger unwanted notifications. We could proactively prevent this by building some form of throttling. This could be potentially configurable per wiki or per page.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T125653 Create new types of notifications | |||
| Resolved | None | T32750 [Epic] Ping/notify user when username used in an edit summary | |||
| Declined | None | T186658 Consider throttling edit summary Mention notifications |
We haven't yet seen anything that indicates we need to throttle mention notifications from edit summaries. If this does turn out to be a problem, CommTech may take this on.