Am 04.04.2012 um 04:13 schrieb Bináris: > 2012/4/3 Isabelle Ayel <[email protected]> > Bináris: Mediawiki has a wonderful tool named "my watchlist" which permit you > to receive emails from the wiki everytime a page of your interest is > modified. Then you can go on the page and argue with all the editors of this > page. Really great : everything in one place! > > Except one: discovering new pages that are interesting for you, and adding > them to your watchlist. (I have been editing Wikipedia for five and a half > years now, and know what a watchlist is good for and what is not.
For everybody else: the "my watchlist" is under toolbox->special pages in the media wiki http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page I had to guess its functionality (since i couldnt find any documentation), so my guesses might be wrong: one can list on that "my watchlist" wikimedia pages, by their titles, i.e. by editing the "my watchlist" and by writing eg: Wikidata (then you get a link to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) however it doesnt seem to work for more complicated links like Special:RecentChangesLinked?target=Category:Wikidata&days=30&limit=500 But despite this tool I still want to be taken off the mailing list. As I encountered technical problems I previously asked to be taken off the mailing list http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata/134 however I still get emails. Whoever is entitled to do that - could you please take me off this mailing list. Thanks again. j > Further, I have an own personal wiki on my computer and I use it daily > happily fr organizing my data and thoughts.) The other main disadvantage is > the lack of a global watchlist. Once SUL is being used for quite a time now > in WMM wikis, a global watchlist would be very useful to introduce. > Historically, global use with one account was not an initial concept of > MediaWiki, but a later improvement that was implemented without a watchlist. > The problem is to follow several wikis continuously. I see a setting for > e-mail about the changes of my talk page and the LQT topics, not the complete > watchlist; but let's suppose, you may get an e-mail about every change of > every watched page, and be flooded by e-mail notifications, why is that > better than real content e-mails? While on a mailing list people are reached > directly and a question will reach everyone, on a wiki page less people will > find the same topic. And again, what about new ones? > > A good mailbox or a good e-mail client software gives you a great scale of > possibilities, how to handle e-mails with searching, grouping, labeling, > deleting etc. Did you know that Pegasus Mail was able to search with regular > expressions many-many years ago? The only way of searching for something with > regular expressions in MediaWiki is to run a bot which is not as fast as slow > it is (I do that daily). In Gmail, you may create plenty of labels and > sublabels, in mailing clients plenty of folders and subfolders, while in a > wiki you have only one watchlist that shows the last 7 days which is not a > happy thing after a holiday or a longer period while you are not able to > follow events here, but e-mails will wait for you. > > There are a good many things that are really not for ethernity, and each > member of a list can decide to delete it alone if he/she is no more > interested in, while these topics remain on a wiki. > > Isabelle, it is nice to see your enthusiasm. After 5.5 years of being a > hardcore Wikipedian and after 17 years of heavy use of uncountable mailing > lists in several topics, I really like both forms of communication and both > fascinate me, and I can compare them and I see advantages and disadvantages > of both. But you may still try to convince me that a wiki is the best form of > communication. :-) As I told, in my opinion it is primarily for storing > content. > > Cheers, > -- > Bináris > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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