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).
>
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