Recent changes for pages in your watchlist
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages and http://www.daviswiki.org/Bookmarks
Moin already has this, its called subscription. You subscribe to any page and get page diffs to your mail box. Much more effective then checking a web page again and again and again.
- Depends on the usecase. For example, if a user likes to check his watchlist once a week, a webbased solution might be more effective than a mail based solution. After a week, there might be 50 or more mails with page diffs. It would be nice to have both and to be able to add some pages to an e-mail notification list and other pages to a webbased watchlist.
- A user can filter his mail and check it once a week. Try to describe cases when a web based watchlist is better. What tasks are better done with a web based watchlist?
- Many users don't know how to filter their mail. When using a web based watchlist, is is not necessary to know this. Clicking on a "my watchlist" link is simple. If each subscribed page gets edited more than once a day there might be 80 mails for one week but only 20 lines / rows on the watchlist page (=filtered recent changes).
- Some companies block web mail clients, and users also do not prefer to enter the company address.
- A watchlist makes you view all the changes in one diff view, not waddling through 20 mails for 20 little changes fixing some typos, adding spam, removing spam and so on. (how do i add signature with gui editor??)
- A user can filter his mail and check it once a week. Try to describe cases when a web based watchlist is better. What tasks are better done with a web based watchlist?
We can add is filtered recent changes. for example, only pages in certain list, or certain name pattern, or certain category.
This feature has some pros and cons. In very big wikis with lots of changes per day, this is useful, as a user can concentrate on stuff he is interested in (and ignore other stuff). In small or medium wikis, this feature might be a killer for the wiki if everybody uses it, as one wouldn't see any changes for long maybe. Often RC is one of the means for directing user's focus to some new page or fresh edited page. -- ThomasWaldmann 2005-05-17 16:53:40
Such feature should be implemented as 3rd party plugin. Since our own RecentChanges is also a plugin, it should be quite easy. A wiki admin can install such plugin and remove it if it has bad effect on the wiki. The implementation can use a special group page for the watchlist, like UserName/WatchlistGroup, and use the group members to filter pages in [[MyRecentChanges]] macro, which can be based on the original recent changes.