BoyWiki:Agora/7 November 2015

Agora/7 November 2015

Email notification

I just registered an account at ChildWiki. I notice an option for my email there to receive notifications that I don't find here on BoyWiki:

• Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed
• Email me when my user talk page is changed
• Email me also for minor edits of pages and files
• Email me when I make a change to a page on the wiki

Is this functionality available also here, and if so, how can I enable these options? I don't see any of these in my Preferences menu.

Did I get those options perhaps because I was immediately made an administrator over there? __meco (talk) 19:33, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

As far as I know, it is not an option we have. --Etenne (talk) 20:46, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Do you use an older version of the MediaWiki software, perhaps? __meco (talk) 20:49, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

No, likely that function is an extension or it was turned off during the set up of BoyWiki because the tech. person thought it was a security risk. ‎Lysander would likely know --Etenne (talk) 20:56, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

The newer versions of MediaWiki are set up by default to allow these notifications. See mediawikiwiki:MediaWiki_1.23#Notifications and mediawikiwiki:Manual:Configuration_settings#Email_notification_.28Enotif.29_settings. Special:Version says that BoyWiki uses MediaWiki 1.24, so we should have that capability, if the tech person will switch it on. I agree that email notifications are more convenient than checking watchlists on several different wikis. Lysander (talk) 21:07, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

if the tech person will switch it on. You have been around here long enough to know that that is not going to happen. I have a question though, what do you use as a mail.server for ChildWiki? --Etenne (talk) 21:29, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

I don't use any special mail server; I just use what Dreamhost provides. I think they do set a quota on outgoing emails though. Lysander (talk) 22:08, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Etenne you write: "if the tech person will switch it on. You have been around here long enough to know that that is not going to happen." I haven't been around for long so I don't know what this means. My first guess is that there are no tech persons around. Please elaborate! __meco (talk) 15:01, 10 November 2015 (UTC)