Hey all,
We're very happy to announce the first release of a new (Semantic) MediaWiki extension titled Semantic Watchlist.
Semantic Watchlist extends Semantic MediaWikihttp://semantic-mediawiki.org/by adding the capability to watch/follow sets of properties for groups of pages (that can be specified with categories and namespaces). You can view changes to these properties via Special:SemanticWatchlist, which works similar to the regular MediaWiki watchlist. You can also request to be notified via email when a change is made.
There are already two extensions that notify users about changes to SMW property values: Semantic Notifications [2] and Semantic NotifyMe [3]. We decided to create a new extension because we wanted the ability for users to get notifications in ways other than email: via a watchlist on the page, or potentially via other ways in the future as well, like Twitter updates.
A writeup of the functionality of this extension, including some screenshots and download links can be found on Jeroens blog [0]. Documentation for the extension can be found on MediaWiki.org [1].
[0] http://blog.bn2vs.com/2011/07/30/new-mediawiki-extension-semantic-watchlist/ [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Wat... [2] http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Notifications... [3] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Not...
Cheers
Jeroen De Dauw & Yaron Koren