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Extension: Extension/Echo
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| Description: | notifications notifies users according to their individual settings about operations in the wiki. | ||
| State: | stable | Dependency: | |
| Developer: | WkimediaFoundation | License: | - |
| Type: | MediaWiki | Category: | - |
| Edition: | BlueSpice free | ||
Features[edit source]
BlueSpice replaces version 2 with the previous e-mail notification system "MailChanges" by "Notifications" (Echo) by MediaWiki. Notifications notifies users according to their individual settings about operations in the wiki.
Functionality of Notifications[edit | edit source]
My Messages[edit | edit source]
Clicking on the letter icon 
on the top right opens "Your messages". All news are displayed here, depending on what you have defined in your settings.
Change settings[edit | edit source]
You can set on which events you wish to receive notifications. To do so click on "Preferences" in the Notifications dialogue as mentioned above or open the UserPreferences via the special page Special:Preferences and edit the preferences in the tab "Notifications"
Set the notification interval of the e-mail notifications[edit | edit source]
You can choose the time intervals in which you want to be notified. The choices are:
- Do not send me any email notifications (disable email notifications, web notifications stay active)
- Individual notifications as they come in (You'll receive an email after every event)
- A daily summary of notifications (All changes of the day will be sent in one email)
- A weekly summary of notifications (All changes of the week will be sent in one email)
Notice that you can change your email adress here as well.
Notifications via web or mail[edit | edit source]
For all available notifications (changes), you can choose to be notified via the wiki (web), via email or both channels.
Available notification events[edit | edit source]
- Talk page message
- Action on subscribed page
- Mention
- Page link
- User rights change
- Edit revert
- Email from other user
- Notification for mention in a shout
- Reminders
- Review-Assignments
- Review-Actions
- Page assignments
Caution: Do not forget to save your settings!
Classic Notifications with MediaWiki[edit | edit source]
Since May 2013, Echo (Notifications) has been used in English-language Wikipedia. The functionality is described on Wikipedia and at MediaWiki.org.