Show user talk notifications

[nicolas-raoul]

Notify when a user talk message is received, or when a picture is nominated for deletion or modified etc

This is important so that users get notified of feedback like "Please don't upload pictures of recent copyrighted paintings" or "Where was picture X taken?" or "Please categorize using X rather than Y" or "Please provide better description".

[nicolas-raoul]

Touching a notification would open a browser

[whym]

Showing notifications would also help the user realize copyright violations (#97) they might be making. Chances are that app-only users don't read talk pages and notifications, resulting in miscommunication with the community. If I recall it correctly, one of the major concerns of the community against new mobile users was this.

If some of the notifications be made directly visible in the app itself, that would be handy. As a first step, giving hyperlinks to messages readable on the website would be useful, too.

See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications/API .

(reposted from the duplicate issue I created above)

[nicolas-raoul]

Great tip thanks!

Do you think you could implement this? :-)

We don't really need to actively listen for incoming messages real-time, I guess checking once in a while (for instance 5 seconds after the app is launched) would be enough.

[nicolas-raoul]

A great implementation of this would show not only "Someone edited your userpage" but instead would show the message they received. This is not easy, because such message often include templates. Here is an example I received recently:

== [[:File:Hall and entrance of The Pokémon Company in Tokyo.jpg]] ==
{{Autotranslate|1=File:Hall and entrance of The Pokémon Company in Tokyo.jpg|2=|3=|base=Idw}} [[User:Ubcule|Ubcule]] ([[User talk:Ubcule|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:07, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

We have several options:

• Scrap the rendered HTML and show it in a webview
• Scrap the wikitext and render it using the Wikimedia API
• Scrap the wikitext and render it ourselves, for instance recognizing "idw" and showing the right localized message for it (probably hard to maintain)

[misaochan]

A few points of discussion:

1. Which notifications exactly do we want to display? User talk & picture nominated for deletion are definitely needed. But what else should/can we show? I'm not sure we want to display notification of modifications as the app submits a modification for EVERY upload (this is how the category selection goes through even though the upload has already started).

2. How do we want these to be displayed in the UI? We will have a panel in the overhauled main UI where notifications are displayed, but we can really just display 1 account notification and 1 nearby notification in that space. Should we have an additional activity (accessible via nav drawer) that displays all the account notifications, and only display the latest one in the main UI?

[nicolas-raoul]

About (1): It would already be wonderful if we could just get the alerts that can be seen at your https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Notifications either via API or scraping. Example:

[misaochan]

Nice, sounds like a plan! Will have to check and see if the API linked by @whym is able to display all of that, though.