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Description

Until 16 February I hadn't received any email notifications of changes to Oxford English Dictionary since 14 October despite the numerous changes since then. I only discovered them, and specifically the 15 February addition of a 2nd edition links table, as a result of a site notification of a change to its Talk page of a section I'd added on that subject last year. Messaging info-en@wikimedia.org I received a reply from Geoffrey Lane of the Volunteer Response Team to whom I replied, adding that whenever I edit an article I add it to my watchlist and that I subscribe to the relevant section when adding to a talk page. I mentioned that my notification preferences are "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" and "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files" but frequently don't receive notifications even when changes are significant. I asked if anything could be done to ensure I'm notified of all changes.
Receiving a reply from the Team's Lane Rasberry I added that I don't have a spam/junk folder. Using Phabricator which led me to this bug report form was mentioned as an option in the reply {it had also been mentioned by Geoffrey Lane nut not as the first option).
Looking at change notifications arrive I've often noticed I haven't been informed about the immediately preceding change but only now decided to contact WP now.

Mcljlm (Michael Vinegrad)

Event Timeline

@Mcljlm can you tell us if this happens to other pages you are subscribed to? This will help us reproduce the error and figure out how to solve it.

@Mcljlm to be clear: you are receiving all Oxford English Dictionary talk page change notifications, but not all article change notification?

It happens to many other article pages including the OED article where it's still happening. I've only subscribed to the OED Talk page section I posted and there've not been any additions to that since my 18 February post here.

@Mcljlm, I'm trying to understand if this issue is impacting multiple namespaces, or just article. I understand that you are missing notifications for changes in the article namespace. Are you also missing notifications for changes in other namespaces?

What do you mean by namespaces?

Without every namespace it's difficult to know but probably at least some of them as well.