Manual:Extension/Echo

The notifications system alerts users about all important changes in the wiki. Since notifications are sent for many events, users can set when and how often they want to receice these notifications and for what events.

Features

Feature	Description
Email	Notifications can be sent by email
	Notifications page	Notifications can be displayed in the Notifications page of the wiki. This functionality is provided by the MediaWiki extension Echo.
	Icon	An icon appears next to the profile menu with the number of messages that are still unread.
	Configuration	Registered users can configure the notifications settings in the Notifications tab of the Preferences page.
	Sysop notifications	If a new user logs in via the registration form, a notification is sent to sysop users.
	Exclusions	Users are not notified of their own changes
	Extensions	Additional notifications are supplemented by extensions, such as Review or Read confirmations.
	Permissions	Users are only notified of changes on pages for which they have read permissions

Viewing notifications

To view your notification preferences, click Notifications in the user profile menu.

This opens the notifications page. The notifications page has the following functionality:

1 - Notification filter: The filter menu lists notifications by pages. Clilcking on a page name shows only the notifications for that page.

2 - Notification status filter: You can show all notifications as well as read or unread notifications.

3 - Settings menu: Here, you can go to the preferences page to limit the types of notifications you want to receive.

4 - Notification: Clicking on a notification marks it as read. Alternatively, you can click on the blue status icon. Read notifications are marked with a dark background and an empty status icon.

Notification preferences

To configure which notifications you want to get, click on Preferences in the Settings menu (3).

Email options	You can specify how often you receive emails: never, immediately, daily, or weekly
Notify me about these events	Notifications can be displayed in the Notifications page of the wiki. This functionality is provided by the MediaWiki extension Echo.
Notifications on namespace events	Select for which namespaces you want to receive notifications.
Notifications on categories	Select for pages in which categories you want to receive notifications. For example, if you have a category named Administration, you would receive a notification for changes to any page that are in the category Administration. The events for which you receive notifications for this page depend on yur settings in Notify me about these events.
Review	Select if you want to be notified in email of any workflow changes of a review workflow if you are a reviewer or the owner of the review. Under the settings for Notify me about these events, you can set if and how you want to be notified if someone assigns a review task to you.