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I'm trying to ensure I'm alerted to direct mentions of my name (someone using @nskaggs) on tickets. Filtering mail doesn't seem to always work, and it would be useful to see these directly in the UI as well. Any advice or strategy on filtering for username mentions?
@NSkaggs (WMF) Hi, I'm not aware of any good way (like a list) in the web UI. One could query tasks for stuff like body:@nskaggs or comment:@nskaggs but that wouldn't allow sorting results by the date of these mentions.
I recognize that you asked about the UI, but if it helps, here is how I filter email, which works well for me (with the caveat that I like using email):
Filter:
How is this possible? With X-Stamps. Most email clients stash Phab email data in the header of the email, and you can point to that data. Gmail, however, strips it out, so you have to tell Phabricator to be explicit and put the data into the email itself. This also is required for filtering to work, since Gmail's filtering options are limited to a few simple searches. X-Stamps look something like this:
To get this into your Phab emails, change your settings here:
When writing filter rules against mail stamps in Gmail, you should quote any filters you want to apply. For example, specify rules like this, with quotes:
"author(@alice)"
Note that Gmail will ignore some symbols when matching mail against filtering rules, so you can get false positives if the body of the message includes text like author alice (the same words in the same order, without the special symbols).
You'll also get false positives if the message body includes the text of a mail stamp explicitly in a normal text field like a summary, description, or comment.
There's no way to avoid these false positives other than using a different client with support for more powerful filtering rules, but these false positives should normally be uncommon.
Hope that helps, please ask any questions you may have.:)
@Salgo60 Hi, not sure why there is a list of Wikidata properties...Could you please explain what these two specific projects in Phabricator are specifically for? They currently lack project descriptions. Thanks!
I have requested to create them and use Phabricator to track activities regarding them and other things.... you asked why we added activities on Phabricator...
@Salgo60 Hi, I did not ask why you add activities on Phabricator (that's fine and very welcome, and it is meant to track activities, in general)... I asked what the two specific project tags that you added in Phabricator are about. The project tags do not have a description, but project tags should have a description. Currently only you know what a project tag called "so9q" is about, but nobody else knows. Same problem with the project tag called "Magnus Sälgö". Please see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272137 - thanks!:)
In that case they should follow the guidelines (icon, color), they should follow the naming scheme, they should have a description anyways (please always add project descriptions when creating projects, so other people can understand what a project is about, as Phabricator is a public place)?
Also, "so9q" is a subproject of the project "Magnus Sälgö". "Magnus Sälgö" is a subproject of the project "WMSE". Is that a mistake?
@Alejabo Hi, there is no Phabricator account associated with your MediaWiki.org username. If you think there is, then please provide more information, e.g. a link to that account. Thanks!
Ah, thanks. I don't remember the exact reasons, but that (at that time new) account's only edit was changing the Priority of a task without any explanation, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257066#6523665 , so this didn't look very constructive.:)
Hi, I had an old Bugzilla account associated with email capmo700 (at) yahoo.com.br. Several years ago I made what is specified at Phabricator/Help/Reclaim Bugzilla and RT accounts, but I'm afraid the accounts weren't merged. When I check my Activity I only see what was done with the new account; the Bugzilla-era activity does not appear. Can something be done to fix this?
Hi @Capmo, feel free to file a request in a Phab ticket, however I can imagine that currently nobody will prioritize fixing the six year old migration code and test and deploy that, so I'd say it's unlikely. Also see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163581#6743413
Several years ago I changed my username from Mrjohncummings to John Cummings, but this didn't switch for Phabricator, please could someone change it for me?
I recently went through a global username change. Could someone change my Phabricator username/profile name from Gwenhope to Gwennie-nyan in accordance with this? Please and thank you.
