Re: [linux-dvb] Linuxtv wiki needs email notification/more email-ready users

[CityK <cityk@rogers.com>]

Hi Henrik,

CityK wrote:
> H. Langos wrote:
>   
>> ...I'd like to keep an eye on changes. Not because of fear of
>> vandalisim but because changes to the templates/date potentially have 
>> effects on a lot of pages.
>>
>> There are some people who day by day put a lot of effort and work into the 
>> wiki and I'd like to thank them all for their continuing effort. I myself 
>> have only occasionaly time to update information there and I miss a lot
>> of changes, even to the pages I watch, because the "watchlist" and "recent
>> cahnges" reaches only seven days back. Manually going through the pages on 
>> my watchlist (currently 57) is not what I'd call good use of resources.
>>
>> It would be great if it was possible to get (immediate/daily/weekly?) change
>> notifications by email in order not to lose track of what is happening to
>> the pages that I care about. (I bet this is standard functionality of
>> mediawiki or at least one of the more common extentions.)
>>     

In searching for something else, I came across this recent thread on the
mediawiki m/l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2009-October/032214.html

There are a few suggestions in it (I just skimmed through). Perhaps one
of them would be good to implement.