Editing Help:Preferences (section)

== Notifications ==
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These settings alter the [[Special:Notifications]] tool. The options for Notifications were first added in May 2013. See ''Wikipedia Signpost'' topic "[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-04-22/Technology report#English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment|English-language Wikipedia to be first to receive Echo deployment]]" for a brief overview.

For a full explanation of the specific preferences, see {{Section link|Wikipedia:Notifications|Preferences and settings}}.

;Email options
* Choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of email notifications (you must [[Help:Email confirmation|confirm your email address]] on your {{myprefs|User profile|Email options}}). You can also choose how often to receive email notifications, from single emails for each event to daily or weekly digests.
* Choose whether to receive plain text or [[HTML email]].

;Notify me about these events
You can enable (or disable) individual types of notifications by checking (or unchecking) the boxes next to it. You can enable (or disable) notifications on the web or by email for most notification types (note that some notifications cannot be disabled, such as changes to your user rights or new talk page messages: these notifications are too important to be dismissed).

{{Section link|Wikipedia:Notifications|Types of notifications}} has a general list of the types of notifications. [[Special:DisplayNotificationsConfiguration]] lists all notification types available and how they are configured.

;Muted users
You can mute on-site notifications from individual users by enter their username into the box. You will still receive notifications if a muted user writes on your user talk page or reviews a page you have created. The muted user will still receive a successful mention notification, if they've enabled that preference.

;Muting pages
You can mute "page linked" notifications for specific pages by typing each page's name into the box.