[Mediawiki-l] New extension: Semantic Watchlist

[Jeroen De Dauw]

Hey all,

We're very happy to announce the first release of a new (Semantic) MediaWiki
extension titled Semantic Watchlist.

Semantic Watchlist extends Semantic
MediaWiki<http://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_Watchlist
[2]
http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Notifications_Extension
[3]
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:Semantic_NotifyMe

Cheers

Jeroen De Dauw & Yaron Koren