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Sending private messages

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User to user communications by wikiloops private messages

As the title indicates, sending private messages to wikiloops users requires a member's account which includes the required personal inbox and messenger functionalities.
Note that the messaging function only unlocks once a user has reached a certain level of activity on wikiloops — this is in place to prevent unwanted spam mailings.

There are two possible ways to send a private message:

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Sending a message via the recipients profile

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Navigate to the recipient's wikiloops user profile by clicking on the hyperlinked username, or by looking up the user's profile with the member search tool
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Click on the "Message" button offered in the head area of the user profile.
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You are being redirected to the conversation page, where you may enter and send your message.
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Sending a message from your messages-page

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Navigate to your messages overview page by clicking on the "envelope"-icon in the top-right corner of the screen.
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Enter the recipient's wikiloops username in the "Enter username" field offered at the top of the page and select the correct recipient from the appearing drop-down menu.
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You are being redirected to the conversation page, where you may enter and send your message.
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Receiving private messages

Whenever you receive a message, the "envelope"-icon in the top right corner of wikiloops will light up and display a red dot with the number of new messages in your inbox.
To check your inbox, simply click on the "envelope"-icon.
On the conversations overview page which is opened, the conversations which contain the new unread messages will be displayed at the top.
Mind that if one user has sent you multiple messages, there may be only one conversation marked with the small red envelope icon.
Click on the conversation list entry on the overview page to open the chosen conversation, where you may read and respond to the received message.

Should you not be logged in on wikiloops at the time of receiving a private message, an email notification informing you about the new message in your inbox will be sent to your email account.
How to change this default notification behaviour is explained in Messaging and Email notification settings.

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