Teammates,
Is there an extension or a method to email to a distribution list when an important mediawiki page is changed ? Rather than each individual having a watch to it ?
thx, Lori
Rowe, Dolores A wrote:
Teammates,
Is there an extension or a method to email to a distribution list when an important mediawiki page is changed ? Rather than each individual having a watch to it ?
thx, Lori
You could have a dummy user with the distribution list as address, but then you would need to login as that user to view the page for each notification.
The best way seems to be hooking at ArticleSaveComplete to send the email.
On 15/04/11 22:23, Rowe, Dolores A wrote:
Teammates,
Is there an extension or a method to email to a distribution list when an important mediawiki page is changed ? Rather than each individual having a watch to it ?
Yes, set up a user account with their email address set to the distribution list, say "Notify" then use
$wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array( 'Notify' );
Platonides wrote:
You could have a dummy user with the distribution list as address, but then you would need to login as that user to view the page for each notification.
I don't see why you would have to log in as the user, as long as you use $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges and not watchlists.
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling wrote:
On 15/04/11 22:23, Rowe, Dolores A wrote:
Teammates,
Is there an extension or a method to email to a distribution list when an important mediawiki page is changed ? Rather than each individual having a watch to it ?
Yes, set up a user account with their email address set to the distribution list, say "Notify" then use
$wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array( 'Notify' );
Platonides wrote:
You could have a dummy user with the distribution list as address, but then you would need to login as that user to view the page for each notification.
I don't see why you would have to log in as the user, as long as you use $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges and not watchlists.
-- Tim Starling
Well, he asked to email "when an important mediawiki page is changed", so I assumed that not all his mediawiki pages were "important". :)
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