[Mediawiki-l] Notification on new pages?

[Rob Church]

On 04/04/06, BoD <BoD at jraf.org> wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to receive notification when a new page is created.
> There is a faq about that here
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_FAQ#How_can_I_edit_wiki_that_everytime_a_new_article_is_created.2C_users_get_email_notification.3F
>
> but nobody answered yet. Is there any way to do that?

If it's not in the code, and I suspect it's not, then write an
extension. Details of the hooks can be found in docs/hooks.txt. You'll
want to check out the extension authoring docs on Meta, and also take
a look at User::sendMail() for the actual notification.


Rob Church