2009/8/31 Verhoeven, Peter <peter.verhoeven(a)oce.com>om>: Hi, AFAIK there is no way to do either of these things with MediaWiki by itself. However, there is a toolserver tool that does something a bit similar. "Catfood" by Magnus Manske http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php creates a feed for pages added to a category. Note this is a bit different to "new pages": the pages could have existed for a long time, but only recently be added to a category. e.g. Feed of images added to the Featured Pictures category on Commons: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?category=Featured_pictures_on_Wik… Feed of articles added to the Linguistics category on simple.wikipedia: http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catfood.php?language=simple&project=wikip… (it seemed to be choking a bit on en.wikipedia, but in theory that should also work) Catfood is open source, and I think it wouldn't be difficult to adapt it for your wiki. You can then use JavaScript to insert an automatic link into the toolbox for category pages. (Like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_of_JavaScript_Catfood.png - follow the links from here) Re recent changes to a category, from what I understand, this won't exist any time soon. A hacky solution might be: * create a page that contains a link to every page in a category * have a bot update the page every so often * Use the RelatedChanges feed for that page. cheers Brianna -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/

If I understand you correctly this is what the News extension can do, though you have to provide the categories manually. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:News Best, Matthias Am Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:09:53 +0200 schrieb "Verhoeven, Peter" <peter.verhoeven(a)oce.com>om>: -- Rock in China http://wiki.rockinchina.com/ http://www.rockinchina.com/