UESPWiki:Archive/CP Email Notifications

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Email Notifications

Since I realize most editors don't pay attention to the Administrator Noticeboard, I thought I should point out a problem that's been discussed at UESPWiki:Administrator Noticeboard#Email and Editing Problems (aka 5 minute bug). In a nutshell, from the point that UESP was moved to the new server (on August 21st) up until this morning (September 1st), email notifications have not been working. Although the problem was fixed this morning, it still means that any editors relying on email notifications to find out about changes to their talk pages and/or watchlists did not receive any emails during this time period. Therefore, you may want to double check to see whether you have missed any activity that has happened during the last ten days.

Also, if you registered a new account during the last ten days, you will not have received a confirmation email for the new account. You should now be able to request that a new confirmation email be sent, allowing email to be enabled for your account. --Nephele^Talk 02:44, 2 September 2007 (EDT)

Is this happening again? I received an email about UESPWiki:Patrollers/Nominations but not UESPWiki:Reference Desk. I also received an email about User:Rpeh but not User:Daveh. --GuildKnight (Talk) ^contribs 23:04, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

Interesting observation. One thing to double check is whether there had possibly been a minor edit done to one of those pages. When I was testing the notifications last time around, it was very quirky about minor edits. My recollection is that even if I had notifications turned on for minor edits, it wouldn't generally work. And if a minor edit happened and then a non-minor edit, I'd never be notified about the non-minor edit, no matter what my settings were. In other words, notifications can be somewhat unreliable any time there's a minor edit in the page history.

As for whether there's a more widespread problem, I don't have email notifications turned on and therefore I don't have any sense of whether whether there have been problems lately with email. But the site has been having some type of intermittent problem, where it just stops responding for a couple minutes at a time. One possibility is that email notifications that coincide with one of those time-outs get cancelled. Or else it's possible that there is some quirk that gets triggered occasionally by email notifications.... --Nephele^Talk 00:22, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

That looks like what happened. I use my email notifications more often than the recent changes page, and there are a few pages on my watchlist that have had minor changes, which I was not sent an email for. Because I didn't get an email and didn't visit the page for the minor change, I am not sent an email for any subsequent changes, even if they are not minor. Any ideas? --GuildKnight (Talk) ^contribs 10:43, 31 October 2007 (EDT)