Help:Notifications/Types/sd

All types of notifications below can be seen on Wikimedia wikis. You can see them on the wiki where you are, from an other wiki cross-wiki notifications or on Special:Notifications page.

Some of these notifications are turned off by default or not available on your wiki. If you would like to enable any of these notifications (or disable them), you can do so in your preferences, as described further below.



Received when a message is left on your user talk page.
 * Primary information: Message title.
 * Secondary information:
 * in case of a new message: who left the message, and on which page. Links directly to the message.
 * in case of a reply: who replied to the message, and on which page. Links directly to the section title, or, with Flow, to the message itself.
 * in case of multiple new messages or multiples replies, messages may be grouped ("six new messages on [that page]").
 * Details: link to the user page or the last user who left you a message for that group.

This notification replaces the orange bar that used to appear, but you can setup your preferences to have the orange bar.



Received when a new link is made to a page you created.
 * Primary information: The page that you created, and where it was linked from. Links to the page that has the new link.
 * Details: link to "What links here" page for the targeted page.



Received when your edits are undone or rolled back.
 * Primary information: Who reverted you, and where. Links to the diff.
 * Details: link to the user who reverted you.



Received when someone mentions you on a talk page.
 * Primary information: Who mentioned you, where, and about what. Linked to the page, or to the message on Flow you are mentioned in.
 * Details: link to the user who mentioned you and the diff where you are mentioned.

To mention another editor and trigger this notification for them, you need to: Specific and additional technical details, are at Manual:Echo.
 * Link to their username - either link it directly, or with one of the templates that exist on your wiki (many use the ping or reply to templates).
 * Sign your comment with  or  . Notifications will not be sent if your signature is embedded in a template.
 * Do not alter any text outside of your own comment.
 * Do not exceed the limit on the number of mentions (50 on Wikimedia's wikis).
 * Notifications are only sent to logged-in users, i.e. mentioning anonymous users (IPs) is not possible.
 * You cannot mention yourself.



Received when someone thanks you for your edit.
 * Primary information: Who thanked you, where, and about what. Linked to the diff or to the message on Flow that you are thanked for.
 * Details: link to the user who thanked you, and if it was on a Flow board to the page.

You can thank someone from any History page, from a diff comparison, in your watchlist, or directly on the page in Flow. Remember this thank is stored in a public log.



Received when your user rights change.
 * Primary information: what has been changed, and by who. Links to Special:UserGroupRights page.
 * Details: link to the user who changed your rights.

Welcome


Received when you have just created your account.
 * Primary information: Welcome!
 * Details: link to a welcome page as defined on the wiki configuration (MediaWiki:Notification-welcome-link).



Received when someone sent you an email trough the wiki.
 * Primary information: Who sent you an email. No link given for this information.
 * Details: link to the user who sent you this email.

People can send you emails only if you have allowed this on your preferences.

Notifications from optional extensions
These notifications are not available by default. They can be triggered by an extension only available on certain wikis, or by an extension available on Beta features on certain Wikimedia wikis.

Notifications about your talk page if it is using Flow are on the section "#|" above.

Notifications from a page using Flow
Received when a page using Flow you watch has changes (new topic, post replied, topic renamed…).
 * Primary information: Informations about classes or reviews.
 * Secondary information: abstract of the change.
 * Details:
 * for a new topic: user who created the topic, and the targeted page.
 * for a new reply: last user who replied to the topic, and the targeted page.
 * for a topic change: user who did the change and a link to that diff.

Received when you have completed 1, 10 and 100 translations via Content translation tool.
 * Primary information: Congratulations message.

Received when you are participating to actions created by the Education Program extension.
 * Primary information: Informations about classes or reviews.