Hi everyone,
The coding period for Google Summer of Code ended a few days back, and I am
so happy to announce the new extension which I was working for the last
couple of months. I had tried my best to make the extension as good as
possible under the mentor-ship of Yaron Koren. So far I have been really
enjoying my journey with MediaWiki. I have picked out a few features which
makes the extension special.
This extension makes use of Echo extension to notify the subscribed users
of specific events. The events include creation of new pages, editing of
pages, change in specific template field and change in specific template
field to template value. Users can keep track of a particular namespace or
category or get notified of these events in all pages. Users can receives
notification as both alert message and email. Users can also keep track for
all changes which notifies them of every edit. The create page notification
is limited for all pages, thus it cannot be used in a particular namespace
or category.
For the extension to work, an array should be added to LocalSettings.php,
in which usernames can be added to get notified for various events. You can
read more about the extension at Extension:EditNotify [0]. In addition, we
are planning to implement the user interface for the users to sign up for
the events.
I am very fortunate to be a part of this community, although I am a newbie
in here. I am planning to stick with MediaWiki and contribute more to the
organisation in future as well. Thanks to all those who have helped me out
when I was stuck. My heartfelt gratitude to my mentor, Yaron for his time,
support and guidance, without which I could never have completed the
project. :)
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditNotify
Regards
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