Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects would appreciate too, I'm sure.)
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, svetlana <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas! > > Anthony Cole wrote: > > Svetlana, presently we have > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles > > which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of > > interest to WikiProjedt Medicine" (about 33,000 so far). > > This is a grand tool. Though > 1) it doesn't filter for new page creations (would it be nice to have a > "new page" tag?), and > 2) is not as grained as subcats would be (where people would be able to > pick a more narrow topic to watch). > > Anthony Cole wrote: > > I'd like all our > > medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when this > > article changes", so interested experts could easily adopt a few > articles. > > Yes, this is a watchlist thing, it's already there (interested people can > enable email delivery). > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
