On Aug 13, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Bruce Bertrand wrote:
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 02:51 pm, Luis
Casillas wrote:
Something I've wanted to add to MediaWiki is
email notifications of
watchlist page changes. The users of the wiki I'm running have asked
for this feature. (I do need to learn PHP and get a good look at the
code before I try this, though.)
This should be fairly straightforward.
On each commit, search the watchlist table for instances of that page
and
collect the returned user id's into an array.
Step through the array, getting the email address associated with each
id.
Then send out a mail that's BCC'd to each address.
If the watchlist table gets very big, it could take a long time for
the edit
to be committed. However, the "namespace_title" field is already a
table
index, so it shouldn't be too bad unless it's a huge wiki, in which
case, a
flag in LocalSettings could disable the option.
Yeah, I figured this couldn't be too hard to do, and really the
obstacle is to find the time to learn PHP. Thanks for the details!
--
Luis Casillas <casillas(a)mercedsystems.com>
A little correction to my initial response, even though it's useless now, as
this functionality is already here/on the way as of 1.3.1 (and probably a lot
better than my minimal approach).
You would need to add a DB entry in the user information indicating the user's
preference for receiving mail (unless you wanted to unconditionally send mail
to everyone who had that article on their watchlist).
-B