Echo
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- Last edited 6 years ago by Lsireta
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Extension: Extension/Echo
| Overview | |||
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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
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
My Messages
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
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
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
For all available notifications (changes), you can choose to be notified via the wiki (web), via email or both channels.
Available notification events
- 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
Classic Notifications with MediaWiki
Since May 2013, Echo (Notifications) has been used in English-language Wikipedia. The functionality is described on Wikipedia and at MediaWiki.org.