Hello.
I installed Mediawiki (and a couple of extensions) as an intranet website.
Everyone in the company is entitled to publish, so my fear is people missing important information. My idea is to send a weekly e-mail to list every modified pages (link to page, author, last modification date).
I started to write a PHP script as a demonstration and it now works pretty well. So I have two questions: - I first unsuccessfully tried to find something similar, but maybe I'm re-inventing the wheel? - If I'm the first to build such a feature, maybe someone else could have some interest in it? If yes, how to publish (this is not an extension, but a standalone software reading a MySQL database)?
Georges
On 14.02.2015 14:39, Georges DICK wrote:
I installed Mediawiki (and a couple of extensions) as an intranet website.
Everyone in the company is entitled to publish, so my fear is people missing important information. My idea is to send a weekly e-mail to list every modified pages (link to page, author, last modification date).
I started to write a PHP script as a demonstration and it now works pretty well. So I have two questions:
- I first unsuccessfully tried to find something similar, but maybe I'm
re-inventing the wheel?
- If I'm the first to build such a feature, maybe someone else could have
some interest in it? If yes, how to publish (this is not an extension, but a standalone software reading a MySQL database)?
Why not using standards for this, ie. the recent change RSS/Atom feed?
If you really want to have a weekly email digest (what is IMO not a good idea), then you scan use any kind of "feed2email" software solution.
Emmanuel
Hi Emmanuel,
Thank you for your answer.
The "recent change RSS/Atom feed" will provide a list of modifications, not a list of created/updated pages. This makes a big difference if a page is updated many times during several days.
My weekly email digest is intended for an internal Wiki, in a fast-grown company where 60 computer users in 7 different services (20 users in 3 services one year ago) must share information (plannings, meetings, procedures, operating instructions, memorandum, etc.). I believe most of them won't parse a website to find some news. Even a "Recent changes page" won't be a solution, because they will have to remember to check this page from day to day. This is the reason why I choose email : this is the current main information source.
2015-02-14 16:47 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Engelhart kelson@kiwix.org:
On 14.02.2015 14:39, Georges DICK wrote:
I installed Mediawiki (and a couple of extensions) as an intranet website.
Everyone in the company is entitled to publish, so my fear is people missing important information. My idea is to send a weekly e-mail to list every modified pages (link to page, author, last modification date).
I started to write a PHP script as a demonstration and it now works pretty well. So I have two questions:
- I first unsuccessfully tried to find something similar, but maybe I'm
re-inventing the wheel?
- If I'm the first to build such a feature, maybe someone else could have
some interest in it? If yes, how to publish (this is not an extension, but a standalone software reading a MySQL database)?
Why not using standards for this, ie. the recent change RSS/Atom feed?
If you really want to have a weekly email digest (what is IMO not a good idea), then you scan use any kind of "feed2email" software solution.
Emmanuel
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Special:NewPages has a feed too. As for collating recent changes by page title, that's called "enhanced recent changes". We could add that as option in the feed (https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=feedrecentchang... ) and maybe make the timespan configurable.
Special:RecentChanges makes one row for all edits to a page in 1 day, but sometimes it's more useful for that to be 7 days etc. So it would be a useful patch for core.
Not saying this is necessarily the way to go, but Kelson's proposal is definitely implementable.
Nemo
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