Fwd: Re: [E2] Cross-wiki notifications

[Matthew Flaschen]

Some notes from our team lead.  I don't think it went through because 
he's not on the list.

Matt

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Subject: 	Re: [E2] Cross-wiki notifications
Date: 	Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:07:25 +1100
From: 	Roan Kattouw <rkattouw at wikimedia.org>
To: 	Matthew Flaschen <mflaschen at wikimedia.org>
CC: 	E2 development team <e2 at lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitolearn-tech at kde.org



On Feb 4, 2016 09:57, "Matthew Flaschen" <mflaschen at wikimedia.org
<mailto:mflaschen at wikimedia.org>> wrote:
  >
  > I spoke to Riccardo at FOSDEM, and he indicated you might be
interested in setting up cross-wiki notifications.
  >
  > There is not much documentation right now
(https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125728).

Yeah, we should write some. Thanks for filing that.

  > Also set $wgEchoUseCrossWikiBetaFeature to true if you want it to be
a Beta Feature (requires BetaFeatures extension) (probably a good idea
to make it a BetaFeature initially while we iron out any issues).
  >

Counter-intuitively, not enabling that setting doesn't make the feature
available to everyone, it makes it completely unavailable. To enable it
for everyone, you need
$wgDefaultUserOptions['echo-cross-wiki-notifications'] = true; .

Also, after creating the database table, you should populate it by
running extensions/Echo/maintenance/backfillUnreadWikis.php on every
wiki. If you don't do that, the feature will work, but notifications
that were received before the feature was enabled won't be taken into
account.

Roan