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'''Notifications''' (formerlycommonly known ascalled '''Echopinging''', commonlyformerly calledknown as '''pingingEcho''') is a system designed to inform users about new activity on Wikipedia in a unified way. It provides notifications to users for a number of events related to their account, including new talk page messages, edit reverts, mentions or links. It is intended to augment the [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]], by highlighting key user interactions.

You can "mention" a user called [[User:Example|Example]] by making an edit with a link to their user page (writing <nowiki>[[User:Example]]</nowiki>, {{tlxi|u|Example}}, {{tlxi|User|Example}}, {{usertlxi|User link|Example}}, {{pingtlxi|Ping|Example}}, {{tlxi|Yo|Example}}, or {{replytlxi|Reply to|Example}}</nowiki>) '''and''' [[Wikipedia:Signatures|signing]] the edit using four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>). The user "Example" will then get a notification saying where they were mentioned. This is sometimes called "pinging". See [[Help:Talk pages#Notifications]] for more information.

The first badge (red, "alerts") contains more important notification types: new messages on your talk page, mentions, etc. The second badge (blue, "notices") contains less important notifications: pagespage links, messagemessages on other talk pages, etc.

[[File:Echo edit-user-talk icon.svg|30px|Talk page message icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when a message is left on your user talk page.

[[File:Echo mention icon.svg|30px|Mention icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when someone mentions you on a talk page.

* Notifications are only sent to registered users; '''notifying anonymous users (IPs) by mentioning their IP address is not possible'''.

[[File:Echo mention icon.svg|30px|Mention icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when someone links to your user page in an edit summary.

[[File:Echo mention-success.svg|30px|Successful mention icon]] '''AlertsNotices''' — Received—Received when your mention has been sent to other user.

[[File:Echo mention-failure.svg|30px|Failed mention icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when your mention to other user was not sent.

* trying to mention an anonymous user or userusers that does not exist, or

[[File:Echo revert icon.svg|30px|Edit reverts icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when your edits are [[WP:UNDO|undone]] or [[WP:ROLLBACK|rolled back]].

[[File:Echo emailuser icon.svg|30px|Emails from other users icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when someone emailed you through the wiki.

[[File:Echo user-rights icon.svg|30px|User rights icon]] '''Alerts''' — Received—Received when your [[WP:UAL|user rights]] change. Doesn't include if it's automatic, like when you become [[WP:AUTOCONF|autoconfirmed]] or [[WP:EXTENDEDCONF|extended confirmed]].

'''Alerts''' — Received—Received when someone attempted and failed to log in to your account.

'''Notices''' — Received—Received when you have just created your account.

[[File:OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg|30px|Milestone edit icon]] '''Notices''' — Received—Received when you reach certain edit count milestones.

The current milestones are powers of ten (1st, 10th, 100th, 1,000th, 10,000th, 100,000th, 1,000,000th and 10,000,000th edits).<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AllMessages?prefix=notification-header-thank-you-&filter=all&lang=en&limit=5000</ref>

[[File:OOjs UI icon userTalk-ltr-constructive.svg|30px|thanks notice icon]] '''Notices''' — Received—Received when [[WP:THANKS|someone thanks you]] for your edit.

:Primary information: Who thanked you, where, and about what. Linked to the diff or to the message on Flow that you are thanked for.

You can thank someone from any History page, from a diff comparison, or in your watchlist. Remember thisthat thankthanks isare stored in a public log ([[Special:Log/thanks]]).

[[File:OOjs UI icon link-ltr-progressive.svg|30px|page links notice icon]] '''Notices''' — Received—Received when a new link is made to a page you created.

[[File:OOjs UI icon articleCheck-ltr-progressive.svg|30px|page review notice icon]] '''Notices''' — Received—Received when a page which you created is reviewed (or "patrolled") by a [[WP:NPP|new page patroller]].

[[File:Notifications - Wikidata connection.png|thumb|upright=1.5]]
[[File:OOjs UI icon Wikidata Echo.svg|30px|Wikidata connection icon]] '''Notices''' — Received—Received when your page is connected to [[Wikipedia:Wikidata|Wikidata]].

=== Muting users ===

You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes or participates on your user talk page (no matter if the page uses Flow or unstructured wikitext), or reviews a page you have created. Watchlist behavior and emails are not affected by the mute list.

For all open Notifications related bugs, see {{Plain link|url=https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/182/query/open/ |name=the list on Phabricator}}.