Hi Pine,
Yes, even for the basic act of getting notified of all changes to certain
pages, the current watchlist functionality isn't always ideal - that's part
of what this extension is meant to address.
We haven't discussed getting alerted only for changes to certain sections,
though it's an interesting idea, and it seems doable - thanks for the
feedback.
Just to clarify - by "ANI" I assume you mean this page:
There has been no discussion so far of putting this extension on Wikpedia
or any other Wikimedia site - we have no way to know whether, or when, it
would happen.
-Yaron
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This could be very useful for those of us who have
huge watchlists but only
need urgent notifications about a small number of pages.
Will it be possible to watch or get alerts for specific sections of pages,
such as specific sections on ANI?
Thanks!
Pine
On May 6, 2016 08:00, "Abhi Nand" <abhinand4858(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am Abhinand N and I have been selected for GSoC'16 for the project -
Extension for page creation/editing notification. I would like to share
my
experience in contributing to MediaWiki and my
perspective on
implementing
the extension in MediaWiki.
*About me*
I am a first year Computer Science major from Amrita University, India. I
am coming from a small town called Palakkad
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palakkad_district> in Kerala
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala>. Kerala is known as Gods own
Country
and it is a very beautiful place. I got introduced to MediaWiki through
FOSS community in my campus - FOSS@Amrita <http://foss.amrita.ac.in/>.
Its
one of the active club in the campus where we are
introduced to a new
world
of open source technology apart from the usual
academic work. I started
contributing to MediaWiki by fixing small bugs. I noticed this project
when
it was put up as featured for GSoC. I went
through the project
description
the project and got very much excited to work on
the same. Yaron Koren is
my mentor for this project. He is one of the coolest guy whom I have ever
met and I am very happy to work with him.
*Project*
This project aims to create notification when a page is created or edited
by any user. There are already existing modules like Watchlist, Semantic
Watchlist, PageCreationNotif etc that helps with notification. However,
the
extension that I am going to develop allows the
user to configure the
notification system the way he/she needs. The configuration is not
limited
to whether the user needs to receive the
notification via Email, Echo
notification or as the recent changes in a special page. Also, the user
is
given the option to track all pages, pages in
specific namespace or
category, or a specified list of pages.
Just as the pages to be tracked are grouped, the people who are to be
notified are also grouped as
- User in a user group,
- A user in a user-list,
- User who signed up to be notified or
- to Email addresses of non MediaWiki users.
That's a brief explanation about the project. Currently I haven't yet
decided on how the extension should be structured and on the user
interface
part of the extension, which is one of the most
important things to be
considered. Also the priority of the events are not concluded. I would be
grateful to get your valuable suggestions and feedback about the project.
It would help me a lot to make the extension more effective and
convenient
for the user.
Kind regards
--
Abhinand N
About <http://www.abhinand7.me/> | Blog
<https://abhilovesto.wordpress.com/> | Github
<https://github.com/abhinand4858>
*"Explore.Dream.Discover"*
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