Last modified: 2008-05-05 01:44:29 UTC
Hello, hallo et salut, I again "pray" to enable the e-mail notification switches for the major wikis now. Brion, what are your arguments against enabling ? Please give "it" a try. It's stable since more than two years when you put the code into the CVS and I cannot see any reason why not to switch e-mail notification on now. Tom
Does this increase server load too much? If yes, we at least could consider enabling this for smaller wikis, as there often isn't such a huge active community.
(In reply to comment #1) > Does this increase server load too much? If yes, we at least could consider enabling > this for smaller wikis, as there often isn't such a huge active community. Only very small increase, when only e-mail notification for changes on user-talk page is enabled. Brion made statistics last year, and even in en-wiki, there were only 1.500 user-talk-page changes per day, about 80% of it were foreign changes, which would trigger exactly one e-mail. Thus about 1.200 e-mails per day for en-wiki $wgEnotifUserTalk = true; Hey, boys and girls, admins, be finally courageous and switch it on, now.
For de-wiki, the worst-case szenario results in about one additional mail per minute. It sounds therefore reasonable, to switch that option on. An opinion poll shows an impressive majority of positive votes, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einschalten_der_M%C3%B6glichkeit_von_E-Mailnotification_bei_%C3%84nderungen_an_Benutzer_Diskussionsseiten
Updated subject, switched to product 'Wikimedia'.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5220 ***
Since some months there is an easy way to do this, see bug 5220#c21 (web feed + Mozilla Thunderbird)!
