It's possible to do this with a single-purpose account and "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" (which was re-enabled on enwiki a few years back). Not the most straightforward process, but it's there; you could do it with a regular account, but you'd get swamped fast!
A better solution would be some kind of "prioritised watchlist", which has been proposed a few times but I'm not sure if anyone's ever worked on it.
Andrew.
On 13 November 2014 04:12, Risker risker.wp@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@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@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:WikiProj...
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
- 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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