Wikipedia:Notifications
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It is intended to augment (rather than replace) the Watchlist, by highlighting key user interactions that includes users being mentioned in posts and new messages on a user's page.
Notifications are displayed to the right of the username and user-talk links in the top link bar of the page for logged-in users, displaying two coloured squares ("badges"), each with a number representing the number of recent notifications. Email notifications can be set up for some or all types of notification as a user .
You can find recent notifications not only by clicking on the coloured squares ("badges") in the top link bar of every page, but also in a special archive containing up to 2,000 of your past notifications on one page: . For other tips on how to use this tool, visit this FAQ page.
As of November 2014[update], eight types of events can trigger an "Alert" or "New message" notification. You can customize which notifications you receive by turning each type of notification on or off individually at the tab of your .
You can also trigger notification messages for another editor by mentioning that editor's user name in those of the following events to which you have access. This is known as {{}}ing the user.
There is a site-wide list of accounts that cannot trigger notifications at which can be overridden by users at . As of November 2014[update], it contains one entry; SineBot ( · ). SineBot adds signatures (including linking to usernames) of users who don't sign their posts; if it were able to trigger notifications, it would be notifying hundreds of people daily without real benefit. If you wish to be notified that SineBot has signed one of your posts, you can whitelist it.
If you mention more than 50 users in a single post, then notifications for mentions will not be sent to any of the users in question. This is done to protect people against possible spamming.
There are a number of bugs currently known with the notifications system:
For all open Notifications related bugs, see the list on Phabricator.
The team plans to develop a few more features and notifications, based on community feedback. The editor engagement team expects this notification tool to be an integral part of future engagement projects, such as the upcoming Flow messaging feature. In the Beta-test for started.
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