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Have watchlist email setting in "Notifications" tab in Special:Preferences
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Description

There are two different places within Special:Preferences where you can configure email settings:

  • "User Profile" tab, where you can set your email address and enable emails from other users and emails when pages on your watchlist are changed
  • "Notifications" tab, where you can configure email notifications for getting thanked, mentions, etc.

This presents a minor usability issue: I wanted to make sure that I would get emailed whenever a page on my watchlist was edited, but I could not find this setting in the place where all the other email notification settings were. This setting should be moved to the "Notifications" tab from its current location in the "User Profile" tab.


Version: 1.24rc
Severity: enhancement
See Also: T65577: Create a "Watching and notifications" tab in MediaWiki core, T65578: Move Echo's user preferences to "Notifications" core user preferences tab, T44743: Watchlist preferences should link to the watchlist e-mail notification option

Details

Reference
bz66965

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:31 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz66965.
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This bug is probably a duplicate of bug 63577 and/or bug 63578.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM
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Jack_who_built_the_house raised the priority of this task from Low to Needs Triage.EditedJun 7 2025, 5:33 PM

This is annoying and doesn't make sense: a setting regarding how notifications behave is not on "Notifications" page.

Users have to scan all this...

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...only to figure out (if at all) it's at the bottom of a completely different place:
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Either

  1. move the preference (with indicating to accustomed users where it went) or
  2. link it from "Notifications" so that users are able to find it (T44743).