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This is just some things that could be inproved on the site. OK, I’ll start. I wish that wikiHow, when you want to know if you have knew messages, it could tell you right away!

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It does already. On top of any wikiHow page on the green taskbar the red dot with how many messages got sent as well as the placement of thumbs up on your edits, there’s also a way to have copies of Talk page messages get sent to your email on-file as well as ways of receiving notifications of thumb-upped edits to your email. You can adjust these settings from http://www.wikihow.com/Special:Preferences and selecting the Notifications tab to begin.

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Messages only come through when you reload the page. So I get that when I’m doing Topic Greenhouse or something for a long time I miss messages…so yeah it’s not immediate but just refresh the page once in a while :) 

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More editors and contributors.:slight_smile:

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One thing I like to do is to open another tab of my profile or another nifty page I want to see updates on and just refresh it everytime I want to check my messages! That way I have one where I can check and respond to messages, and another where I am actively editing on the site.:slight_smile:

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Thanks @Marina

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Add profile picture could be easier, maybe a little bit bigger.

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@ Lee earl https://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Profile-Picture-on-wikiHow if you would like to change yours.

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We could have a tool for identifying duplicate article requests, but I understand there’s a lot the engineers have to do. Maybe identifying duplicate requests could help us prevent duplicates from being written.

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Increased automation. Bots to do maintenance tasks like fixing double redirects, deleting broken redirects, automatically updating links to point directly to the article immediately after moving a page. The RedirectsBot could do all of these.

This way, we could focus on more important tasks like RCP, NAB, other tools, and editing.:slight_smile:

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@Batreeq , I think Anna once mentioned the reason we try not to have too many bots or otherwise automated edits is because it ends up feeling vaguely WP-esque. Especially since we don’t usually end up with a ton to clean up after, and we’ve got a handful of community members who will hop on it as soon as they notice it, the automation isn’t really needed:slight_smile:

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@Galactic-Radiance - That’s certainly fine. The English Wikipedia has over five million articles, and I’m sure they’ve got the automation part right. wikiHow could at the very least experiment.

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I’ve tried to automate a few tasks using macros running on separate browsers. One click and it’s done. But things aren’t quite that easy.

At least a lot of the menial and complex tasks are slowly seeing more automation.

But I feel the topic is now verging onto the point where it should require its own thread.

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I really don’t think that kind of comment is very helpful:frowning:@

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Rather than just being negative, it would be helpful to explain the specific issue(s) of the site so we can address them.