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Currently to unsubscribe from translation notification, the user needs to deselect all the check boxes under Preferred contact methods.
An Unsubscribe button in Special:TranslatorSignup instead would make things much more intuitive.
After this change is made, the FAQ here should be updated: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Translatorsignup-summary
We can add an unsubscribe button in either one of the locations highlighted. This should remove all the "Preferred contact methods" in the back-end. This would automatically unsubscribe the user. We can leave the other saved user settings as is.
In terms of technical implementations, we can add another submit button (Unsubscribe button) and determine which was clicked: Update settings or unsubscribe.
This StackOverflow post shows how we do this with core PHP and we can use a similar approach with MediaWiki.
Another option could be to include one more option in the Contact frequency list: "None (Unsubscribed)"
A more explicit "unsubscribe" button could be added at the bottom (next to "Update settings") that will change the frequency to "None" and save the form.
This approach allows for people to both permanently or temporarily unsubscribe without having to adjust their contact preferences. That is, a user may prefer to be contacted by email and talk page normally but receive no notifications during the summer. With the proposed approach the user can adjust the right volume for their notifications in each period without having to re-state the preference for the channel.
In addition, it would be good to make the action buttons ("Update settings" and "Unsubscribe") a bit smarter:
In this way, actions are shown as active only when it is meaningful. Simplifying the decision process.
A mockup illustrating the idea:
Change 968283 had a related patch set uploaded (by Wangombe; author: Wangombe):
[mediawiki/extensions/TranslationNotifications@master] Simplify unsubscribe from translation notifications
Change 970721 had a related patch set uploaded (by Wangombe; author: Wangombe):
[mediawiki/extensions/TranslationNotifications@master] Change contact frequency to 'none' upon unsubscirption
Change 968283 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/TranslationNotifications@master] Simplify unsubscribe from translation notifications
Change 970721 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/TranslationNotifications@master] Change contact frequency to 'none' when un-subscribing
The first patch to incorporate the 'Unsubscribe' button on this ticket was deployed on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup
The second patch to incorporate the none' contact frequency option is now available on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:TranslatorSignup
Tested: When a user clicks on 'Unsubscribe', the preferred contact methods remain intact while the contact frequency is changed to 'none' which is in line with the design requirements of this ticket. The FAQ section on MediaWiki:Translatorsignup-summary was also updated to remove the section describing how to unsubscribe from translation notifications.