Extension/NotifyMe

Notifications inform users about changes and events in the wiki. Configure notification preferences to choose which events generate notifications, and use the watchlist to specify the pages and other contexts to monitor.

Configure notification preferences

Notification preferences can be configured under **User menu > Preferences > Notifications**.

Notification preferences and the watchlistNotification preferences determine which types of events generate notifications. The watchlist determines which pages and other contexts are monitored.

Notifications preferences showing notification subscriptions, delivery channels, and email frequency

Notification preferences

Notification subscriptions

The **Notification subscriptions** section contains notification types that can be enabled or disabled individually.

Notification	Description
Page created	A page on the watchlist was created.
Page moved	A page on the watchlist was moved.
Page deleted	A page on the watchlist was deleted.
Page edited	A page on the watchlist was edited.
A new comment has been added to a page to which the user has subscribed via preferences	A new comment was added to a page on the watchlist.
Another user replied to a comment that the user has created or is watching	Another user replied to a comment created by the user or to a comment the user is watching.
A page was approved	A page on the watchlist was approved.

Notification channels

Notifications are always sent in the wiki. Additional delivery channels can be enabled in the **Notification channels** section.

Email sends notifications by email in addition to notifications in the wiki.

Configure the email notification frequency

The **Frequency of email notifications** setting determines how often email notifications are sent.

Available options are:

• Instant
• Daily
• Weekly

Add a page or context to the watchlist

The watchlist determines which pages and other contexts are monitored for notification events.

Supported watchlist contexts include:

• pages
• namespaces
• categories
• books
• other contexts where the **Watch** icon is available

Watch icon for adding the current page or context to the watchlist

Watch icon

To add a page or context to the watchlist:

1. Open the page or context to monitor.
2. Select the **Watch** icon.

The page or context is added to the watchlist. Notifications configured under **Preferences > Notifications** can then be generated for relevant events in that context.

View notifications

If unread notifications are available, the notification icon in the top toolbar shows the number of unread notifications. Select the notification icon to open the notification menu with recent notifications.

Notification menu showing recent notifications and the number of unread notifications

Notification menu

Select the link at the end of the notification menu to open the **Notification center**.

Notification center showing Unread, Read, and All notifications

Notification center

The **Notification center** provides the following options:

• Unread displays unread notifications.
• Read displays notifications that have already been read.
• All displays all available notifications.
• Selecting a notification marks it as read.
• The notification center provides access to notification preferences.

Automatically generated notifications

Some notifications are generated automatically and do not depend on notification preferences.

Customize notification emails

Administrators can customize the content and design of notification emails directly in the wiki.

By default, notification emails use the settings from Special:FlexiSkin. If no active FlexiSkin settings exist, the standard template uses the BlueSpice logo and default colors.

Notification email layout

The default email layout can be customized by editing the following pages:

• MediaWiki:Wrapper.mail
• MediaWiki:SingleNotification.mail
• MediaWiki:DigestNotification.mail

How to customize the notification email layout

Registered wiki users receive notifications for a variety of changes to the wiki. Users can subscribe to different types of notifications.

Automatically generated notifications

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Some notifications are not dependent on a subscription and are always automatically sent to users. These include:

• Reminders: Your reminders are due in one week or today
• Read confirmation requests: You have a new read confirmation request
• Mentions and tasks: Another user mentioned you or a new task was assigned to you
• Workflow notifications: A workflow you initiated has finished or you have a new workflow task
• Page assignment changes: Someone assigned you to a page or removed your page assignment.
  Note: Users are not automatically notified about changes on pages to which they are assigned. Assigned users have to subscribe to be notified.
• Changes to your user page by other users
• Reverted changes via the page history by other users
• Changes to your wiki permissions and other administrative events

Events without notifications

The following events do not trigger notifications:

• own edits
• page revisions that are marked as "minor edit"

Subscribing to notifications

In addition to automatic notifications, you can subscribe to additional notifications. These custom notification sets are meant to inform you about very specific events in a single context (for example: page approvals in a particular namespace).

Notifications tab in user preferences

To subscribe to a notification set:

1. Click on Preferences in your user menu.
2. Switch to the tab Notifications.
3. Click the Add button.
4. Create your notification subscription. See below for selecting the options.
5. Click Done to save your new notification set.

   

   Subscription settings

A note for wiki administrators:If you are an administrator and need to monitor the entire wiki, it is more efficient to habitually check the overview pages that show all changes in the wiki (e.g., the pages for Recent changes or the Quality overview page for the approval status of all pages) That way, you can avoid beeing flooded with notifications.

Options

Setting	Description
Receive notifications for	Book: if pages change in a book. To get notifiied about multiple namespaces, you need to create separate subscriptions. Namespace: if pages change in a namespace. To get notifiied about multiple namespaces, you need to create separate subscriptions.Namespace: if pages change in a namespace. To get notifiied about multiple namespaces, you need to create separate subscriptions. Category: if pages change in a category. To get notifiied about multiple categories, you need to create separate subscriptions. Subcategories are also not included in a category subscriptions. They each require their own notification. Watchlist: if pages change that are on your watchlist. Assigned pages: if pages change that are on your assignments list.
Type of notifications	Low-frequency: create / move / delete page edit / delete discussion or blog topic / comment High-frequency: edit page create blog post or discussion topic create blog or discussion comment Quality monitoring: approval of assigned page page expiry
Delivery method	By default, notifications appear in the wiki itself. If you want to get email notifications as well, you need to activate the email checkbox.

List of events that trigger notifications

View event triggers

Viewing notifications

If a user has unread notifications, the bell symbol in the top toolbar shows the number of new notifications. Clicking the notification symbols opens a mega menu with the 10 most recent notifications.

New notifications

At the end of the notifications is a link to view all notifications. This link opens the Notification center.

Notifications center

The following features are available in the Notification center:

1 - Notifications filter: The filter lists notifications by category or namespace.

2 - Status tab: You can view unread notifications as well as read notifications or all notifications.

3 - Preferences: Here you can clear the unread notifications list or go to your user preferences to update your notification subscriptions.

4 - Notification: Clicking on the filled-in blue notification marker will mark a notification as read.

Customizing the notification emails

By default, the emails use the settings from the page Special:FlexiSkin. If your wiki does not have active FlexiSkin settings, the standard template uses the BlueSpice Logo and default colors.

Notification email layout

You can customize the content and design of the default email layout directly in the wiki. This requires changes to the following three pages:

• MediaWiki:Wrapper.mail
• MediaWiki:SingleNotification.mail
• MediaWiki:DigestNotification.mail

How to customize the notification email layout