User:Didicodes/Sandbox/Notifications/Notifications types



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.
 * Link to their username
 * you can link it directly like in
 * you can use mention templates if they exist on your wiki (many use the ping or reply totemplates).
 * Sign your comment with  or  . Notifications will not be sent if your signature is embedded in a template, or has no link to your user page or user talk page.
 * 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.

Mentions in edit summary


Received when someone links to your user page in an edit summary.
 * Primary information: Who mentioned you, where, and the edit summary. Linked to the change in question.
 * Details: link to the user who mentioned you.

To mention a user, just link to their user page, using the normal wikitext syntax:. All the usual link styles work, like  or. No more than 5 users can be mentioned in an edit summary. Mention templates don't work in edit summaries.

To leave a link in the summary without notifying a user, prefix user name with, like this:.

Failed mentions


Received when your mention to other user was not sent.
 * Primary information: who you tried to mention, and the reason why mention was not sent.
 * Details: link to the page you tried to mention on.

These notifications are sent when:
 * trying to mention anonymous user or user that does not exist, or
 * exceeding the limit of mentioned users in a single edit (50 on WMF wikis).

Successful mentions


Received when your mention has been sent to other user.


 * Primary information: who you mentioned.
 * Details: link to the page you mentioned the user on.