User:SPoore (WMF)/Update and request for feedback about User Mute features
Update and request for feedback about User Mute features edit
Hello Wikimedians,
The Anti-harassment Tool team invites you to check out the new User Mute features under development and to give us feedback.
The team is building software that empowers contributors and administrators to make timely, informed decisions when harassment occurs.
With community input, the team will be introducing several User Mute features to allow one user to prohibit another specific user from interacting with them. These features equip individual users with tools to curb harassment that they may be experiencing.
The current notification and email preferences are either all-or-nothing. These mute features will allow users to receive purposeful communication while ignoring non-constructive or harassing communication.
Notifications mute edit
With the notifications mute feature, on wiki echo notifications can be controlled by an individual user in order to stop unwelcome notifications from another user. At the bottom of the "Notifications" tab of user preferences an user can mute on-site echo notifications from individual users, by typing their username into the box.
Echo notifications mute is feature is currently live on Meta Wiki and will be released on all Echo-enabled wikis on August 28, 2017.
Try out the feature and tell us how well it is working for you and your wiki community. Suggest improvements to the feature or documentation. Let us know if you have questions about how to use it. Talk:Community health initiative/User Mute features
Email Mute list edit
Soon the Anti-harassment tool team with begin working on a feature that allows one user to stop a specific user from sending them email through Wikimedia special:email. The Email Mute list will be placed in the 'Email options' sections of the 'User profile' tab of user preferences. It will not be connected to the Notifications Mute list, it will be an entirely independent list.
This feature is planned to be released to all Wikimedia wikis by the end of September 2017.
For more information see. Community health initiative/Special:EmailUser Mute
Let us know your ideas about this feature.
Open questions about user mute features edit
See Community health initiative/User Mute features for more details about the user mute tools.
Community input is needed in order to make these user mute features useful for individuals and their wiki communities. Join the discussion at Talk:Community health initiative/User Mute features