Anne, it's under > Preferences > User profile "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed".
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, as I recall, email alerts for changes in articles has never been > activated on English Wikipedia. > > Risker/Anne > > > > On 12 November 2014 22:53, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 <svetl...@fastmail.com.au> > > 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 > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
