Help:Notifications/Glossary/en

Elements in italics in the following definitions are entries of this glossary.

Structure and types

 * Notification
 * A notification is a short message warning you about an event. There are different types of notifications.


 * Badge
 * Badges are the colored icons with a number, which inform you about new or unread notifications. There is the red badge for Alerts and the blue badge for Notices.
 * Badges are grey when you have zero unread notifications, or you have unread but not new notifications.


 * Alert
 * Alert notifications are the most important notifications you need to know about, more important than notices. They are concerning you directly and most of them will need an action from you. There are different types of alerts.


 * Notice
 * Notices notifications are less important notifications than alerts. They concern you, but probably don't require an immediate action. There are different types of notices. In some languages, "Notice" is translated by "Notification".


 * Panel
 * Flyout
 * Dropdown
 * The panel is displayed when you click on a badge. That panel contains alerts or notices depending on which badge you have clicked.


 * Notification header
 * Notification header shows you the main information about the notification, the title. The header is in bold. (more information)


 * Notification body
 * Notification body shows you details to complete the Notification header. This information is sometimes optional. (more information)


 * Collapsed notifications
 * Bundled notifications
 * Expandable bundle
 * In some cases, similar notifications may be grouped to preserve space in the panel. An arrow allows you to open that group to see all details, or close it when you are done.


 * Cross-wiki notifications
 * Cross-wiki notifications are displayed on both panels, and regroup the notifications from other Wikimedia Foundation hosted wikis. This enables you to receive notifications about Commons when you are on Wikisource, for example. (Learn more)


 * Three-dots menu
 * The three dots menu hides more information, and other items that can be useful to take action.
 * The three dots menu is optional and is sometimes not displayed.

Notifications status

 * Unread
 * Read
 * Unread notifications are highlighted by a different background and a blue dot.
 * Read notifications have a lighter grey background and a grey circle.


 * Blue dot
 * Grey circle
 * A blue dot allows you to mark notifications as read by clicking on it.
 * When a notification is marked as read, the blue dot change to be a grey circle. You can click on the blue dot to mark that notification as unread.

Other

 * Highlight
 * When a notification is not read, it is highlighted by a pale blue background. The blue dot is also highlighting that notification.


 * Mention
 * Mentions are a type of notifications. It is possible to mention people and to be mentioned. (details)


 * Primary link
 * Link to the most important information about that notification. That link has a label.


 * Secondary links
 * Link to the some additional information about that notification. That link has a label.


 * Special:Notifications
 * This personal special page groups all your retained local notifications (up to a limit of 2,000 are kept), and provides access to any unread cross-wiki notifications. (knowmore>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Special:Notifications|know more)


 * Trigger
 * A trigger is one or many conditions which will ask the system to deliver the notification