"mention" notifications (one's userpage being linked) on Meta don't work for the main namespace, which however hosts some important discussion and request pages there.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54433
The issue here is that it's hardcoded for talk namespaces and NS_PROJECT. We probably need some kind of configuration variable to modify it.
Echo/Hooks.php:455 if ( $title->isTalkPage() || $title->inNamespace( NS_PROJECT ) ) {
(In reply to comment #1)
The issue here is that it's hardcoded for talk namespaces and NS_PROJECT. We
probably need some kind of configuration variable to modify it.Echo/Hooks.php:455 if ( $title->isTalkPage() ||
$title->inNamespace( NS_PROJECT ) ) {
Is there any reason it needs to be restricted to certain namespaces at all?
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/326, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Change 93508 had a related patch set uploaded by Gerrit Patch Uploader:
Remove namespace restriction for mention notifications
Just to note that there is a need for notifications in the template namespace as well. Wikipedia DYK makes extensive use of this namespace for reviews.
@Spinningspark the current patch address the notifications triggered by a signature.
Previous behavior: only on NS_PROJECT (Wikipedia:) and on every talk namespaces.
Patch behavior: everywhere
I offered in comments to make this configurable.
If the patch is merged as is, template namespace will be covered.
If my solution is used, the following configuration will be needed:
$wgEchoNotifications['baseNamespaces'] = array(
default => array(
NS_PROJECT
),
metawiki => array(
NS_PROJECT,
NS_MAIN, //bug 55491
),
enwiki => array(
NS_PROJECT,
NS_TEMPLATE, //bug 55491
),);
I don't see any reason why it should be made configurable. Why would we not want notifications from particular namespaces? If my name were to be linked in article space I would certainly want to know about it top priority above everything else. Perhaps that case could be implemented as a big orange bar at the top of the page (alright, perhaps not :) ).
(In reply to comment #8)
I don't see any reason why it should be made configurable. Why would we not
want notifications from particular namespaces?
Edge cases, I imagine. But we should test it out and see what happens, in my opinion.
(In reply to comment #9)
(In reply to comment #8)
I don't see any reason why it should be made configurable. Why would we not
want notifications from particular namespaces?Edge cases, I imagine. But we should test it out and see what happens, in my
opinion.
Edge cases are likely to be specific pages rather than entire namespaces.
(In reply to comment #10)
Edge cases are likely to be specific pages rather than entire namespaces.
Sure, but... bug 50628. :-)
What is hindering the approval of this patch? I see more and more that people are trying to ping each other on the main or project ns'es.
(In reply to comment #12)
What is hindering the approval of this patch? I see more and more that people
are trying to ping each other on the main or project ns'es.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/93508 needs to be updated and merged. I just bumped the changeset.
(In reply to MZMcBride from comment #15)
Who's maintaining Echo?
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers (might be outdated); http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo ?
Change 93508 merged by jenkins-bot:
Remove namespace restriction for mention notifications