Topic on Talk:Notifications

Hi, I have a bot that tries to notify people and it seems those notifications do not arrive. I don't see any limitation in the docs, so I'm wondering what could cause the failed notifications?

I use a substituted template which receives a username as param ({{subst:pșn|user=X}}) and outputs the username using a {{u}}-like template: "Try to notify {{u|X}}". I tried substitution by hand and it seems to work, as well as the template itself and other notification methods, so the only hypothesis I have left is the bot flag.

Could you link to one or more example edits/diffs, where

• the bot made an edit, and
• the user has confirmed they didn't receive anything, and
• the user has confirmed their Notification-preferences are set to receive that type of Notification, and
• the user has confirmed they haven't "muted" the bot
  • (last 2 are within Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo)

That information might help someone to investigate further.

Sure, see for instance https://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Pagini_de_%C8%99ters/Adrian_N._Matei&oldid=15105058 Gikü is receiving notifications from me, he hasn't mutd the bot but does not receive any notifications from the bot.

Hmmm. With the I-am-not-a-dev disclaimer... and after looking at the technical docs for this feature in Manual:Echo#Mentions... My guesses would be it's either:

1. The level-3 ===header===.
   • If I understand correctly, the code doesn't send mention-pings for new level-3 sections. Is it feasible for the bot to use a level-2 ==header== instead?
2. or the bot-signature is not close-enough to a default-signature.
   • perhaps just remove the fullstop after the bot's userpagelink?

The way I read the code, only level 1 does not count. It's very likely the second hypothesis, will test. Thanks!