This task is about changing the default channels (e.g. Web / Email / Apps) through which topic subscription notifications are delivered to new users. [i]
Requirements
Functionality
- Sign up for a new Wikipedia account
- Ensure Topic Subscriptions are enabled [i] by visiting Special:Preferences and verifying the Enable topic subscription setting is enabled
- Visit Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo
- Identify the Talk page subscription setting
- Verify the following notification delivery channels besides it are "checked": Web and Email
Meta
- The functionality above should only impact new users, for the time being
- The state of the setting should not depend on how Topic Subscriptions became enabled (e.g. by way of turning on the DiscussionTools beta feature, by way of Topic Subscriptions already being available by default at the wiki you are creating an account on/through, etc.)
Done
- The default state of the Talk page subscription setting within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo for all new users is adjusted to match the "Functionality" described above
i. Perhaps we can broaden the scope of this default to existing users in the future. For now, I think it is worthwhile to keep it constrained to avoid the risk that people become overwhelmed.
