[Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

Mon Apr 25 16:37:57 UTC 2011

On Apr 19, 2011 8:20 AM, "Tim Starling" <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email
> > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code.
> >
> > The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted
> > emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff
> > inside of my email when I get notification about changing my talk page).
>
> The main problem is that they are plain text instead of HTML.

This is most certainly /not/ a problem. What would be a problem would be if
MediaWiki chose to jump on the bandwagon of embedding huge external images
in emails to users. Bandwidth? Tracking? Smaller screens (mobile)? Text
interfaces?

--Dan