derrick.farnell at gmail
May 22, 2008, 3:02 AM
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Re: Email alerts to new pages in a category?
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Great - thanks!
Derrick
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Daniel Barrett <danb[at]vistaprint.com> wrote:
> I don't think you can get alerts when articles are added/removed from a
> category. But you can do similar things.
>
> Option 1: Use Dynamic Page List (http://semeb.com/dpldemo/DPL:Manual) to
> produce a report of pages in a category, sorted by the date they were added,
> and view that page on demand:
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> <dpl>
> category = ...name of category here...
> addfirstcategorydate = true
> ordermethod = categoryadd
> order = descending
> </dpl>
>
> Option 2: View the "related changes" page (Special:Recentchangeslinked) for
> a category as needed. It lists category additions, but not deletions. You
> can receive this by RSS.
>
> DanB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces[at]lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
> mediawiki-l-bounces[at]lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Derrick Farnell
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 4:29 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Email alerts to new pages in a category?
>
> Hi
>
> I use the CreateBox extension on my wiki so that some wikitext is
> automatically inserted into new pages created by users via this extension.
> This wikitext includes a category label, so that such pages are
> automatically entered into the category of pages awaiting check by an
> admin.
> Does anyone know of a way, direct or indirect, that admins can receive
> email
> alerts to such new additions to this category? I've tried 'watching' the
> category page, but I notice that I do not get an email alert when there is
> a
> new addition to the category.
>
> Derrick
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