MediaWiki's notification system, implemented as a result of the [Notification framework RFC](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notification_framework), currently lives in the [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo|Echo]] extension. It should be in MediaWiki core.
* A notification system is fundamental to any kind of modern website and should be part of the default MediaWiki experience.
* Being in an extension, Echo has to use ugly hooks to suppress some core features and has generally weird interactions with some things.
* extensions that wish to use it have to do conditional checks every time they'd like to trigger a notifications.
* Echo is a reserved word in PHP, preventing us from using it as the namespace for a PHP class. ;-)
== Former RfC ==
There was an RfC on this topic, without any definite outcome. See the comments of this task, [mw:Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core), and the IRC logs P3638 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-08-03-21.02.html)) and P3640 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-03-09-22.00.log.html)).
== See also ==
* {T128352}