Help:Notifications/Special:Notifications

The Special:Notifications page is a page available on each wiki, which regroups all Notifications displayed to user. That special page is an inbox for all notifications you can receive.

How to find that page?
That page is reachable at the bottom of notifications panel, or by clicking on Notifications alerts icons (red and blue) on your personal toolbar.

Page design
Special:Notifications has been designed to look like an email inbox.

The page is divided in three areas: Special:Notifications uses JavaScript to improve user experience, but can work without it.

Navigation
By clicking on buttons on top of ou can go between read, unread or all notifications on Special:Notifications. Notifications are displayed by batches of 50 on the notifications list.

You can browse all notifications by using navigation arrows, displayed on the navigation area or at the bottom of the list. If you need to go back to your most recent notifications, a "" button is available.

Notifications list
That list lists notifications by groups of 50. The 2,000 last notifications are displayed on Special:Notifications, older ones are purged from the database to avoid

You can mark notifications as read by clicking on the cross in the corner of the notification.

Notifications on Special:Notifications are grouped by day. You can mark every daily group as read individually.

If there is no notifications to read, an empty state is shown ("").

Filters
Filters are not available at the moment.

Future features
''Note : all these features are not available bu ttheir descriptions are written in the present tense to avoid extra work for translators. Whey will be moved to the appropriate section when available.''

Navigation
The navigation bar allows users to search for specific notifications or to change how the list of notifications is displayed.

Notifications list
You can mark notifications as read by clicking on the blue dot in the corner of the notification. Clicking on the empty circle will mark that notification as unread.

Generalities
The column on the left side of the notifications list (right side for left-to-right languages) is dedicated to filters.

Filters provide quick accesses to pending notifications and to check on new activities.

When you click on a filter, all notifications from that filter are displayed on the notification list.

If there are notifications but the current filter can't display them, then an empty state message is shown ("") and a button allows you to reset filters.

Filtering by type of notifications
You can filter notification by type. Type of notifications are listed on the Notifications help page.

Cross-wiki notifications
On Wikimedia wikis, these filters will include cross-wiki notifications.

These notifications are be stored by wikis, the wikis with most activity are be displayed first. That list is limited to 10 wikis.

The wiki you are currently on is displayed first on that list of filters. If there is no cross-wiki notifications, the wiki you are currently on will be the only one displayed in filters list.

All pages concerned by notifications are listed there, with a number indicating how many notifications are pending for that page. Notifications concerning your account (including talk page messages) are displayed first.