"Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed".
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, as I recall, email alerts for changes in
articles has never been
activated on English Wikipedia.
Risker/Anne
On 12 November 2014 22:53, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we
don't have a button at the top
of
articles making it easy for readers to enable
email alerts. 99.999% of
readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects
would appreciate too, I'm sure.)
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au>
wrote:
Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas!
Anthony Cole wrote:
Svetlana, presently we have
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiPro…
> > which reports all changes to articles
tagged on their talk page as
"of
> > interest to WikiProjedt Medicine"
(about 33,000 so far).
>
> This is a grand tool. Though
> 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a
> "new page" tag?), and
> 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to
> pick a more narrow topic to watch).
>
> Anthony Cole wrote:
> > I'd like all our
> > medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when
this
> > article changes", so interested
experts could easily adopt a few
> articles.
>
> Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people
can
enable
email delivery).
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