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

Sat Nov 11 11:33:21 UTC 2006

On 11/10/06, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> 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?
> >
> > Anthony
>
> 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.

Email notification is done *today*.  Someone just has to flip the
switch.  Single user login has been talked about literally for years,
and still isn't done.

If the only problem with flipping the switch is that "a lot of emails
[will be] sent", then someone should probably do it.  That's why I was
hoping someone could be specific.  How many additional servers would
it take to support it?  Or are there problems that throwing servers at
a solution will not fix?

> Someone edits your user talk: The newmessages bit is sent on that wiki and
> a newmessages counter is incremented on the central user table.
> When you're at a wiki you can get two messages: "You have new messages
> on this wiki" or "You have new messages on another wiki" (counter != 0)
> The second wouldn't show if the first is shown and the count is 1 (most
> messages will be received and sent on its main wiki). When he sees his local
> talk page, if the local newmessages flag was set, the global counter is
> decremented (better make sure it never gets negative numbers...).
>
> The link of "new messages anywhere else" would send you to a page similar
> to the CheckUsage, where the full wikis are checked for your user to see if
> you have a new message there (there can be multiple matches). That would
> be the only case where it's ?(n)
>
Yes, this doesn't even require single login to implement.  All it
needs is some way to link up the accounts.

But it isn't here, whereas email notification is.

Anthony