{"id":1248,"date":"2007-06-22T08:32:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T16:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/22\/dear-lazyweb-automatic-emailing-of-recent-changes-to-a-wiki\/"},"modified":"2013-04-19T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:49:41","slug":"dear-lazyweb-automatic-emailing-of-recent-changes-to-a-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/dear-lazyweb-automatic-emailing-of-recent-changes-to-a-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Lazyweb: Automatic emailing of Recent Changes in Mediawiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When working with a group on a small but active wiki, it&#8217;s easy to forget to look at the Recent Changes list for timely updates. I would like an extension that sends a daily email with a digest of what changes have taken place on the wiki in the past day. By showing all recent changes in an email, users can&#8217;t accidentally miss out of developments on new pages. Additionally, people are reminded of the wiki&#8217;s existence so it doesn&#8217;t suffer bit-rot.<\/p>\n<p>There are several ways the the email recipient group could be defined.<\/p>\n<p>There is a hint of this behavior at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Watchlist_subscriptions\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Watchlist_subscriptions\" >Watchlist subscriptions<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/svn.wikimedia.org\/viewvc\/mediawiki\/trunk\/extensions\/PovWatch\/?view=log\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/svn.wikimedia.org\/viewvc\/mediawiki\/trunk\/extensions\/PovWatch\/?view=log\" >PovWatch extension<\/a> but the idea isn&#8217;t developed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Extension:MailNotification\" class=\"external text\" title=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Extension:MailNotification\" >MailNotification<\/a> extension has the right idea but it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working with a group on a small but active wiki, it&#8217;s easy to forget to look at the Recent Changes list for timely updates. I would like an extension that sends a daily email with a digest of what changes have taken place on the wiki in the past day. By showing all recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}