To receive notifications, you first need to subscribe. Notifications are meant to inform about very specific events in a single context (e.g., page approvals in a particular namespace).
A note for wiki administrators:If you are an administrator and need to monitor the entire wiki, it is more efficient to habitually check the overview pages that show all changes in the wiki (e.g., the pages for Recent changes or the Quality overview page for the approval status of all pages) That way, you can avoid beeing flooded with notifications.
Options
Setting
Description
Receive notifications for
Book: if pages change in a book. To get notifiied about multiple namespaces, you need to create separate subscriptions.
Namespace: if pages change in a namespace. To get notifiied about multiple namespaces, you need to create separate subscriptions.Namespace: if pages change in a namespace. To get notifiied about multiple namespaces, you need to create separate subscriptions.
Category: if pages change in a category. To get notifiied about multiple categories, you need to create separate subscriptions. Subcategories are also not included in a category subscriptions. They each require their own notification.
Watchlist: if pages change that are on your watchlist.
Assigned pages: if pages change that are on your assignments list.
Type of notifications
Low-frequency:
create / move / delete page
edit / delete discussion or blog topic / comment
High-frequency:
edit page
create blog post or discussion topic
create blog or discussion comment
Quality monitoring:
approval of assigned page
add / remove page assignment
page expiry;
Delivery method
By default, notifications appear in the wiki itself. If you want to additionally get email notifications, you need to activate the email checkbox.
Viewing notifications
If a user has unread notifications, the bell symbol in the top toolbar shows the number of new notifications. Clicking the notification symbols opens a mega menu with the most recent notifications.
New notifications
At the end of the notifications is a link to view all notifications. This link opens the Notification center.
Notifications center
The following features are available:
1 - Notifications filter: The filter lists notifications by category or namespace.
2 - Status tab: You can view unread notifications as well as read notifications or all notifications.
3 - Preferences: Here you can clear the unread notifications list or go to your user preferences to update your notification subscriptions.
4 - Notification: Clicking on the filled-in blue notification marker will mark a notification as read.
Automatically generated notifications
Some notifications are not dependent on a subscription and automatically sent to users. These include:
