Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki

Cross-wiki notification is an enhancement to the notificationshelp>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications|notifications tool that lets you see messages from all Wikimedia wikis on the wiki in which you are currently working.

Information displayed
Cross-wiki notifications are displayed as items in the notifications panels. (The sorting of items is still being decided at sorting>phab:T123018.)

These cross-wiki notifications are bundled into a single notification. This bundle is expandable by clicking on it. Cross-wiki notifications from an individual wiki are grouped together.

Please notificationsfeedback>Help talk:Notifications|give us feedback if you have any problems with it, and tell us what you like about it!

What information, and where
You will receive notifications from all other wikis than the wiki you are currently visiting.

For example, if you are on Commons, you will receive a notification if someone thanks you on Vietnamese Wiktionary.

You may receive unread notifications from other wikis, sometimes pending since a long time.

It is possible to deactivate cross-wiki notifications on a given wiki (see below).

Release timeline
Release by default to all users is scheduled for May 12 2016 at 23:00 UTC.

We have tested many possible cases during a three-months long Beta release, but you may experience some problems. If so (and we are sorry about that), please notificationsfeedback>Help talk:Notifications|give us feedback.

Further settings are being considered at T117670. A way to filter these notifications in user preferences filters>phab:T114917|is under discussion.

Deactivate the feature
Opt-out Cross-wiki Notifications option on a given wiki is provided by deselecting the cross-wiki option on preferences>Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo|your preferences, on the Notifications tab.

Preferences are not global, so you have to deactivate Cross-wiki Notifications on all wikis you regularly visit.