Hi Pine, Yes, even for the basic act of getting notified of all changes to certain pages, the current watchlist functionality isn't always ideal - that's part of what this extension is meant to address.
We haven't discussed getting alerted only for changes to certain sections, though it's an interesting idea, and it seems doable - thanks for the feedback. Just to clarify - by "ANI" I assume you mean this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents There has been no discussion so far of putting this extension on Wikpedia or any other Wikimedia site - we have no way to know whether, or when, it would happen. -Yaron On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
