Enotif_body says that you can:
Contact the editor: mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Example wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Example
If the user wants to contact User:Example by leaving a message on wiki, then a link to User_talk:Example (not User:Example) would be more appropriate.
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| EmailNotification: Link to editor's talk page, not user page | mediawiki/core | master | +1 -1 |
Change 560443 had a related patch set uploaded (by DannyS712; owner: DannyS712):
[mediawiki/core@master] EmailNotification: Link to editor's talk page, not user page
@Whatamidoing-WMF pretty simple replacement of User::getUserPage with User::getTalkPage, ready for review
I'm sorry that I haven't handled this task. I recently returned from a long bout of unexpected inactivity, and while I plan to resume my contributions here on Phabricator its unfair to claim tasks that I might not work on when others may be interested in handling them. I'm removing myself as the assignee in a batch-action, but if someone feels that I really should be the one to handle this task feel free to re-assign me and I'll take a look.
Change #560443 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] EmailNotification: Link to editor's talk page, not user page
I think in the past it was not uncommon for power users on larger wiki farms (i.e. Wikipedia and WMF projects) to have a user page indicating preferered ways to be contacted, especially when they're not active on that wiki. E.g. placeholders like "contact me on Meta-Wiki instead of here as I won't see your message otherwise". This leads to poor communication and delayed/frustrating experiences if they're missed. Especially for new users.
It is still common for people to have user pages with contact methods on them (esp off-wiki contact options). But, in terms of pointing to the "right" site on-wiki, this has become a lot less common, given that Echo provides cross-wiki notifications for your talk page so that these aren't missed, regardless which wiki they're on.
It is a trade-off between 1) making it as easy as possible to do a common thing with a low chance of someone discovering the "right" way when it is needed, and 2) making it less fast by pointing to the User page where we know they will either find useful information they would otherwise miss, and otherwise they're incentivised to continue to the "Talk" to do what they wanted to do. The inverse is not the case, as once you're on the talk page, DT takes over and there is no reason for someone to look at the User page.
But again, given Echo in-place nowadays, that's probably a fine tade-off today as the message will still be received. This wasn't the case 15 years ago when we set it up this way. TLDR: Nice work!