Topic on Talk:Notifications/Flow

2 years later there is still no watchlist support?

I plan to add Echo on my wiki, but this will be the first thing users will miss.

Email Notification for Pages on User's Watchlist

The current system of email notifications for pages on a user's watchlist needs improvement:

- It is not clear which types of edits (normal, minor, or bot) will trigger emails.

- Because the notification emails stop if a user doesn't visit the changed page while logged-in, it can be difficult to report any problems with the notification emails, because the reporter will always be asked if they are sure they visited the page.

- I would personally like a notification email for every change to a page on my watchlist, whether I visited the page after the last change or not.

- The current system has reported bugs.

See the following tasks in Phabricator:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29884 - Enotif doesn't send email if page on watchlist edited following a minor edit and enotif not configured to send minor edits.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40874 - Minor bot edits don't trigger email notifications even with "E-mail me also for minor edits of pages" selected.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110850 - Wikipedia Watchlist Notification Emails Not Arriving.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114587 - Email notification for every single change to a page on watchlist.

Someone came up with a patch for that in T203942.

I haven't tried though.