Topic on Help talk:Notifications

@Pigsonthewing suggests:

And could we have some way to avoid mass notifications when we are mentioned in a newsletter like The Signpost, This Week in GLAM, or the Wikidata Weekly Summary, which are posted to many talk pages?

I'm starting a thread here, for easier discussion. and note-taking.

There is the blacklist functionality (docs at Extension:Echo#Usage), which could potentially be used to blacklist User:MediaWiki message delivery. However, I believe this would also suppress the "your user talk page was edited" notification, which is (probably?) not desired - although it would still trigger the yellow talkpage indicator (OBOD replacement) so perhaps that is sufficient?

I'll ask the devs what our other technical options might be.

Thank you. I'd want to be notified once, not multiple times, but also not zero.

Are these newsletters being delivered by MediaWiki message delivery? It should already be suppressing mention notifications for those edits...

Yes they are.

Legoktm, yes they are. What mechanism is used to suppress the mentions? I believe that the combination of bot-flag and minor-edit, will suppress the edit-user-talk notification (e.g. for talkpage archiving bots), but I can't find doc details on this mention suppression. Do bot-flag editors simply not trigger notifications? Or is this MassMessage specific code?

It's MassMessage specific code, see .