[Mediawiki-l] a few more details of ENOTIF and EAUTHENT 3.05-alpha for Mediawiki 1.4.1 (REL1_4)

Wed Apr 13 04:01:05 UTC 2005

I suggest this as 1.4.1 - it is fully based on REL1_4 .

E-Mail Notification for page and user-page changes and E-Mail-Address
Authentication. Many further innovative features such as direct links to
difference view between current and last-seen versions (of watched pages).

See http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 for
further information and http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enotif (download,
installation instructions, screenshots, documentation - there are
already many pages; the pages refer to the last version but will be
updated in the forthcoming days)

Comes with full installer and updater code, as usual.

Implementation details: It fully uses DATETIME type for timestamps.
It uses again the effective user_newtalk table, which allows efficient
memcaching for newtalk signalling. Sysops, Developers and Bureaucrats
need _not_ to authenticate their e-mail addresses, when they enter or
change them (for convenience; this can be switched on or off in
DefaultSettings as many other options). On the Create Account screen you
can now also enter the email address as you create the new account (this
is an old bug of mediawiki, but solved within my ENotif patch).

Please may I ask you, that you add your e-mail address to the CC list of
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 , if you want kept
up-to-date ? This saves my time for writing to the many different
"channels".

Avoid the most common pitfalls when you want to test E-Mail
Notifications as a newbie to it:
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1. Do not forget to enter an e-mail address (user preferences) !!
2. Be aware, that you never receive an notification for your own changes
(you need to log in as another user B to invoke and check ENotifs sent
to watching user A )
3. ENotifs are sent only for the first change on a page you are watching
4. ENotifs are automatically retriggered when the watching users visits
the current version - may be direct or indirectly by visiting the
difference to it.