[Commons-l] Principles of organisation - who do we serve?

Sat Nov 11 03:52:46 UTC 2006

Platonides wrote:
> "Anthony" wrote:
>> Turning on email notification when you get a message on your talk page
>> would be a good solution in the mean time.  In fact, for some people
>> (like myself) who don't check their Wikipedia talk page that much
>> either, it might even be a better solution.
>>
>> I believe this email notification has already been coded up.  What
>> would be the problems with turning it on?  Can someone be specific
>> here and answer exactly why it hasn't been turned on?  How many
>> additional servers would be needed to support it?
>>
> 
> I guess the problem of email notification could be a lot of emails being 
> sent.
> But email notification wouldn't be necessary. When the Single User Login
> gets implemented, it'd be easy to have a second "You have new messages"
> text.

It's actually closer than that:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API#userinfo_.2F_ui

Parameters: uiprop=isblocked|hasmsg|rights|groups, uioptions=<opt name>|...

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