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Override user-talk Echo notification with something more MassMessage-specific
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Description

Default notification looks something like "MediaWiki message delivery left a message on your talk page in "subject line...""

We can probably make that more specific and relevant.

See also T218724: MassMessage to email should show section header, not bot username

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bz57234

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:22 AM
bzimport added a project: MassMessage.
bzimport set Reference to bz57234.

(In reply to comment #0)

Default notification looks something like "MediaWiki message delivery left a
message on your talk page in "subject line...""

We can probably make that more specific and relevant.

There's been some chatter about implementing the ability to sign as the sender. Perhaps this could be the first step? Is the sender's username available to give to Echo?

swalling wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)

Default notification looks something like "MediaWiki message delivery left a
message on your talk page in "subject line...""

We can probably make that more specific and relevant.

Great idea.

One of the nicer parts of MassMessage is that the Talk page message doesn't have to be signed by a bot. We should try and make Echo notifications do this as well.

(In reply to comment #1)

There's been some chatter about implementing the ability to sign as the
sender.
Perhaps this could be the first step?

Did you mean send the message as echo? Just modifying the signature to use the user's signature is not really possible.

Is the sender's username available to
give to Echo?

Yes.

Change 98257 had a related patch set uploaded by Legoktm:
Make Echo's user-talk notifiction use the name of the sender

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/98257

@Legoktm: Is there anything I/we can do to help move this forward?