Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
I just noticed that the Email notification function on my version 1.7.1 mediawiki was not sending notifications of page changes I specified using the "Watch" tab. I determined it was due to my user preferences not having the "E-mail me on page changes" preference checked. Three questions:
- Why, when the "E-mail me on page changes" preference is not checked
is the "Watch" tab visible?
Why on earth would that hide the watch tab? The watchlist has been a standard feature for nearly five years, long before the additional e-mail notification option existed.
- Why is the installation default to not receive email notification?
Many people probably don't want their servers spewing huge amounts of email for an optional, nonessential server.
- Is there something I can set in LocalSettings to change this so that
when a user is created the "E-mail me on page changes" preference is checked?
See DefaultSettings.php for all available configuration settings, such as the array of user option default overrides.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)