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The Mentions notification is an alert provided by the Echo extension that occurs when your username is mentioned by someone else, with a link on any talk page (other than yours). This notification is already turned on by default on every Wikimedia user page, if you want to turn off your mention notification, you can do so in your preferences.

How it works
Notifications (formerly known as Echo) can send notifications to users mentioned in discussions; this feature is often referred to as "pinging". Linking to a user's page in a signed message, either directly or through a template, will trigger a mention notification for them.

Mentions on a talk page


Received when someone mentions you on a talk page.

When you are mentioned on a page, you will receive an alert with following information:
 * Who mentioned you, where, and about what.
 * Link to the page, or to the message on Flow you are mentioned in.
 * Link to the user who mentioned you and the diff where you are mentioned.

How to mention another editor and trigger the notification

 * Link to their username: you can link it directly like in  or you can use mention templates if they exist on your wiki (many use the ping or reply to templates).

Specific and additional technical details are at.
 * 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).

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.

How to mention a user in an edit summary
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.

If you want 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. There are certain limitations when using the Mentions notification. That is, sometimes mentions fail. These can caused when you try to mention an anonymous user or a user that does not exist, or when you exceed the limit of mentioned users in a a single edit(50 on WMF wikis). When any of the above mentioned occurs, you will receive an alert with following information:
 * Who you tried to mention, and the reason why mention was not sent.
 * Link to the page you tried to mention on.

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.

Additional notes

 * Notifications are only sent to logged-in users, i.e. mentioning anonymous users (IPs) is not possible.
 * You cannot mention yourself.
 * When a user is muted, the muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference. A user's mute list is private from all other users on the wiki, including administrators or any other functionary.