NEWS: We have developped a reasonable scheme for page change notifications.

HOW IT WORKS:

User X gets a short E-Mail:

- when a page listed in user X's watch list changes - when the user_talk page of UserX changes

Addtional features:

- The notification message body and subject texts can easily be adapted to your needs. They are pages in the MediaWiki: namespace and have parameters such as $PAGESUMMARY and $PAGEEDITOR

- Further notification messages are suppressed until UserX visits the changed page(s) !

- "Own" changes (to a page in your own watchlist or to your own User_talk page) do not trigger the sending of notification mails.

- The notification flags can be reset together for all watchlist pages with a function (button) on UserX Watchlist page

- We will introduce some global flags to enable or disable the two Mail Notification modules if the code keepers allow so (Brion).

Please be patient. Allow for some days of further tests. The mail programs have been developped in the last two weeks and are now fully integrated into to 1.3.1 version. A documentation follows soon; by the way, the patches are not too complicated, finally.

Tom Gries and friends Berlin/Munich

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Example of a notification mail:

Subject: MyMediaWiki page change notification Dear UserX,

the MyMediaWiki page Main_Page has been changed on 16.08.2004 02:55 by UserABC, see http://myserver/mywiki/index.php/Main_Page .

Editor's summary: chic

There will be no further notifications for other changes unless you visit this page again. You could also reset the notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist.

Your friendly wiki notification system

-- To change your watchlist settings, visit http://myserver/mywiki/index.php?title=Special:Watchlist&magic=yes

Feedback and further assistance: http://myserver/mywiki/index.php/WikiHelpdesk