Last modified: 2014-09-05 00:54:27 UTC
I am Nasir, an active contributor of Bengali WIkipedia. I use the email notifications for the change on my watch list pages and it is also enabled for all the notifications. It is helpful to get the notifications as email but the emails are not formatted as it should. I faced the following issues for the Bengali emails and i think these should be fixed soon. * Sometimes a new line appeases between the words of a page name, and sometimes new line appears after 4/5 words in a sentence. I think we are using a fixed DIV width for these texts. If it will be removed then it may be fixed. * Unicode URLs are not readable at all. For the Bengali wiki urls we can make some changes to make the url more readable. like url format could be like this <a href="PAGE_LINK">http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAGE_NAME</a>
(In reply to comment #0) > * Sometimes a new line appeases between the words of a page name, and > sometimes > new line appears after 4/5 words in a sentence. I think we are using a fixed > DIV width for these texts. If it will be removed then it may be fixed. Attaching or pasting one such email would be helpful. > > * Unicode URLs are not readable at all. For the Bengali wiki urls we can make > some changes to make the url more readable. like url format could be like > this > <a href="PAGE_LINK">http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAGE_NAME</a> HTML enotifs are done by [[mw:Echo]]; maybe ShortUrl could also be used in text enotifs, that should be another bug.
Created attachment 13552 [details] Received email content format
Created attachment 13553 [details] Email content format (how it should be)
Uploaded two attachments first one (Attachment 13552 [details], Received email content format) is the screenshot of the received email and the second one (Attachment 13553 [details], Email content format (how it should be)) shows how the email contents should be displayed. -- Nasir Khan Saikat
I was not asking about the ShortUrl. The link we receive in the email are not hu PAGE_NAME are displayed properly in the email the email we <a href="PAGE_LINK">http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAGE_NAME</a>
As written in comment 1, attaching one such example email (with header lines) would be very helpful (please make sure that no confidential data is included).
(In reply to comment #4) > Uploaded two attachments first one (Attachment 13552 [details], Received > email content > format) is the screenshot of the received email and the second one > (Attachment > 13553 [details], Email content format (how it should be)) shows how the > email contents > should be displayed. The URLs seem functional in both examples, so this bug seems to be about newlines in the non-URL text of the email notifications. How did you get Gmail to show the message correctly? How can we see it ourselves and how do we know it's a problem in MediaWiki? On plain text and long URLs, see comment 1.
@Andre Klapper, are you asking me to export the original email content and attach that here? @Nemo, If you open a Gmail email in print mode you can get the email texts in this format. First screenshot is the original message, i did nothing here, just captured the screenshot. And after opening the email in print mode i edited the source and took the second screenshot. The is a <br> (line break) after 3/4 wards in that source, i cleaned those and the texts look ok. Yes, it is a problem of MediaWiki, because between the word of a page names (example উইকিপিডিয়া:প্রশাসকদের আলোচনাসভা) there is no way to add a line break. but i got these "উইকিপিডিয়া:প্রশাসকদের আলোচনাসভা" 3 words in 2 lines. --Nasir Khan
Yes, full email content or export in .eml format would help: then everyone can open the email in Thunderbird. :)
Created attachment 13592 [details] enotif from te.wiki I remembered receiving some enotifs with weird newlines, so I retrieved one from te.wiki: the newlines are wrong there too, right? (Again, for long URLs please file another report.)
Created attachment 13594 [details] Original Email Content bn.wiki @Nemo, Yes the problem is similar as the te.wiki. There are some additional new line there. I have attached a copy of the bn.wiki email. I do not know how to export as .eml form Gmail. Here i just attached the 'Original Contents' of that email. Please let me know if it is helpful or not. -- Nasir Khan
(In reply to comment #11) > @Nemo, Yes the problem is similar as the te.wiki. There are some additional > new > line there. Ok great. Now that we've clarified the issue: Santhosh, do you know what may be causing this weird wrapping in plain text enotifs?
Is there any update in this bug?
Unfortunately not. Somebody needs to investigate here what may be causing that weird wrapping in plain text enotifs...
