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Email notification is a feature of the MediaWiki software on which Wikipedia runs.[1] It allows editors who have registered an account and provided an email address to receive automatic email notifications when their user talk page or other watchlisted page is changed, and when they receive alerts generated by the in-wiki notification system.
The feature is activated on the English-language version of Wikipedia (since May 2011 for the user talk[2], April 2012 for the watchlist, and April 2013 for the in-wiki notification system[3]). These can be set in the Email options part of the User Profile section and the Notifications section of your user preferences.
Emails are sent from [email protected].
The template {{Email user notification}} signals that you have email notification enabled. It produces the icon at the top right of this page.
- ^ The feature is MediaWiki's $wgEnotifUserTalk for user talk changes, $wgEnotifWatchlist for changes to watched pages, and the Echo extension for the in-wiki notification system.
- ^ See T7220 and mailing list announcement. See also tracking bug T3932 (tracking bugs related to email notification).
- ^ The in-wiki notification system supersedes the older user-talk notification system.