Help talk:Notifications

• Help talk:Notifications/Flow

Is there a way to speed up notifications?

I frequently receive Alerts and Notifications much later than the date they were created. This is a hassle especially when my User-Talk-page orange bar does not indicate I have a new posting from someone.

So far I have not been able to figure out if this happens:

• Only on certain wikis?
• Is it because of my geographical location?
• Does it have anything to do with my status at a particular wiki?
• The category of the Alert or Notice?
• Does it depend on my frequency of contributions?
• How many notices I receive at any particular time?

Why is there no documentation included in this Help file for those who experience slow notifications? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 16:53, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Watchlist behavior and emails are not affected by the mute list.

I've seen the phrase that "Watchlist behavior and emails are not affected by the mute list".

Why the watchlist is not affected by this?

For example I thought that this option was allowing me to completely suppress notifications from alter-ego accounts like "User Name (Organization)" VS "User Name". So, I'm quite surprised that I still receive whatchlist notifications if my alter ego edits pages in my watch-list.

I'm unsure to visualize the use-case where I should be interested in muting one user but still getting news about their specific edits.

Anyway, if you are aware of a task to suppress watchlist notifications as well, I would like to subscribe :) Thanks Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 16:46, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello Valerio

Notifications mute are only for notifications. You don't get any pings from the user, or mentions that an article you created was linked by them... However, as the person you muted remains active on wiki, they can still be visible in Recent Changes or if they edit a page you watch.

I'm not aware of any task that would suppress someone from the watchlist. I'm afraid that it would be super complicated to implement given the nature of our wikis...

Trizek_(WMF) (talk) 17:29, 23 June 2026 (UTC)