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'''Notifications''' (formerly known as '''Echo''', commonly called '''pinging''') 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. | '''Notifications''' (formerly known as '''Echo''', commonly called '''pinging''') 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. | ||
Notifications are displayed to the right of the username and user talk links in the top link bar of the page for logged-in users, displaying two icons, each with a number representing the number of recent notifications. Email notifications can also be set up for some or all types of notification in [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo|Preferences]]. | Notifications are displayed to the right of the username and user talk links in the top link bar of the page for logged-in users, displaying two icons, each with a number representing the number of recent notifications. Email notifications can also be set up for some or all types of notification in [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo|Preferences]]. | ||