This could be very useful for those of us who have huge watchlists but only need urgent notifications about a small number of pages.
Will it be possible to watch or get alerts for specific sections of pages, such as specific sections on ANI? Thanks! Pine On May 6, 2016 08:00, "Abhi Nand" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am Abhinand N and I have been selected for GSoC'16 for the project - > Extension for page creation/editing notification. I would like to share my > experience in contributing to MediaWiki and my perspective on implementing > the extension in MediaWiki. > > > *About me* > > > I am a first year Computer Science major from Amrita University, India. I > am coming from a small town called Palakkad > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palakkad_district> in Kerala > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala>. Kerala is known as Gods own > Country > and it is a very beautiful place. I got introduced to MediaWiki through > FOSS community in my campus - FOSS@Amrita <http://foss.amrita.ac.in/>. Its > one of the active club in the campus where we are introduced to a new world > of open source technology apart from the usual academic work. I started > contributing to MediaWiki by fixing small bugs. I noticed this project when > it was put up as featured for GSoC. I went through the project description > the project and got very much excited to work on the same. Yaron Koren is > my mentor for this project. He is one of the coolest guy whom I have ever > met and I am very happy to work with him. > > > *Project* > > > This project aims to create notification when a page is created or edited > by any user. There are already existing modules like Watchlist, Semantic > Watchlist, PageCreationNotif etc that helps with notification. However, the > extension that I am going to develop allows the user to configure the > notification system the way he/she needs. The configuration is not limited > to whether the user needs to receive the notification via Email, Echo > notification or as the recent changes in a special page. Also, the user is > given the option to track all pages, pages in specific namespace or > category, or a specified list of pages. > > Just as the pages to be tracked are grouped, the people who are to be > notified are also grouped as > > > - User in a user group, > - A user in a user-list, > - User who signed up to be notified or > - to Email addresses of non MediaWiki users. > > > That's a brief explanation about the project. Currently I haven't yet > decided on how the extension should be structured and on the user interface > part of the extension, which is one of the most important things to be > considered. Also the priority of the events are not concluded. I would be > grateful to get your valuable suggestions and feedback about the project. > It would help me a lot to make the extension more effective and convenient > for the user. > > Kind regards > -- > Abhinand N > About <http://www.abhinand7.me/> | Blog > <https://abhilovesto.wordpress.com/> | Github > <https://github.com/abhinand4858> > > *"Explore.Dream.Discover"* > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
