The various Wikia Wikis have an option in preferences under "User profile > E-mail": E-mail me on page changes E-mail me wheb my user talk page is changed E-mail me also for minor edits of pages Enable e-mail from other users The second option is of particular interest. I use it on my two rarely-visited Wikia Wikis, and it's worked for the one user talk message I've received since enabling it. I'm assuming this feature is being beta-tested in Wikia and will eventually make its way to Wikipedia and the various sister projects. On 8/15/06, xaosflux <xaosflux(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/16/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix(a)gmail.com> wrote: This is a standard option in MediaWiki, not something specific to Wikia. A few Wikimedia wikis run it (meta and board). I don't know why it isn't used everywhere since it's an incredibly useful feature. An alternative is to get the rss feed of all your talk pages and aggregate them. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Angela&action=histo… Angela.

On 8/16/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix(a)gmail.com> wrote: It is partly the version since it was only introduced in 1.5, but it can be enabled by adding something like $wgEnotifUserTalk = true; to the LocalSettings file (see the mediawiki-l list for more details). Angela.

On 15/08/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: Mm. I tend to note on my talk pages elsewhere to leave me messages on my en: talk page so I'll ever see them. Wikia has almost-single-signon, I think - most of the Wikias share a login database. Uncyclopedia is separate, I think Memory Alpha is separate. This is one for wikitech. Hey, is there any likelihood of RSS feeds or email being switched on any time, just in case you feel like there isn't enough smoke coming out of the servers? - d.

On 15/08/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: Uncyclopedia is now owned by Wikia (Chronarion finally sold Wikia the domain name and whatever rights attach to the uncyclopedia.org trademark - though the word "uncyclopedia" may not be TMed and the puzzle potato logo is someone else's, and etc and blah, it's all pretty vexed, see http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/DUMP for unedifying heat rather than light). It's been hosted by Wikia since mid last year, and now it's officially part of Wikia. But it still operates pretty much separately as a community, so it's kept its own user database and search database. - d.