User:Jeblad/Notifications

At Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia I made a kind of notification system. I only call it a kind of as it was rather simplistic. It is although a few lessons learned from the system. The system was made over several iterations and emerged from an initial idea of a Gtalk-ish type of interface. After a while I realized that it only reimplemented what was going on at the talk pages, and as such wasn't very much better than the pages it tried to replace. So I ended up with something that is really just a very simplistic notification system.

It seems like there are two different types of notifications; broadcast and private. Broadcast (public) notifications are basically just the RC-feed, and the user (private) notifications are something happening due to some private settings like the watchlist-feed. The events triggering a private notification often comes from a public notification.