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:
1) Why, when the "E-mail me on page changes" preference is not checked is the "Watch" tab visible? I would think it makes better sense to not have it appear if selecting it means nothing at the time. I understand that I can "watch" the page and later set my preference to receive email notifications so maybe that is why is is there, but it would be nice to add to the tab something that says that though you may add this to your watch list you will not receive notifications should the page change.
2) Why is the installation default to not receive email notification?
3) 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?
Thanks to all...
-Jim