Notifications/status

Last update on: 2012-09-monthly

2012-04-26
Andrew Garrett committed first page on the data model. Comments/additions appreciated.

2012-04-27
Andrew Garrett made an initial commit on Echo.

2012-07-01
Official start date of Notifications rewrite.

2012-07-31
Andrew Garrett plans on deploying test Echo prototype on mediawiki.org in early August. It will not include infrastructure parts that depend on JobQueue services. Right now it only supports notifications for talk and Liquid threads.

List of completed cards: 
 * "My notifications" shows new notifications
 * Improve "My notifications" personal URL, added red numerical badge
 * Ensure that non-Echo e-mail notifications are suppressed
 * Split messages referring to a generic talk page from messaging referring to your user talk page
 * Fix issue with notifications popup dismissing itself

2012-07-monthly
Andrew Garrett continued to build this feature and plans on deploying test Echo prototype on mediawiki.org in early August. It will not include infrastructure parts that depend on JobQueue services. Right now it only supports notifications for talk and LiquidThreads.

2012-08-monthly
Andrew Garrett deployed Echo to MediaWiki.org, but it was temporarily turned off pending a bug that has recently been fixed. Vibha Bamba is working on some of the UI backlog.

2012-09-monthly
This month, we started to ramp up planning, design and development for Notifications on MediaWiki. We aim to develop a first experimental version of this product on MediaWiki in coming months, and plan to release a full version on the English Wikipedia and other projects in 2013. Code-named 'Echo', this new infrastructure tool will be developed by Wikimedia's editor engagement team, including Fabrice Florin, Vibha Bamba, Ryan Kaldari, Benny Situ, Brandon Harris, Oliver Keyes, Howie Fung and Terry Chay.