Posted by pieterh on 04 Aug 2009 11:40, last edited by gerdami on 30 Dec 2009 17:59
This howto provides additional knowledge about the email notification system.
You can get notifications in these ways:
If you watch the whole site, you get notifications on all forum threads. You cannot explicitly watch a forum thread, and commenting on a forum thread does not make you a watcher of it.
You can verify and manage your site, category, and page watches from your personal profile.
To follow a forum thread, you can use RSS: every forum thread has an RSS feed at the top of the page.
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Most of the sites that I watch were set up automatically by wikidot. But what are the steps I need to take if I want to watch an entire site of my choosing?
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Check the options at the bottom of the page. You should see Start watching: site whatever.wikidot.com | category this-page's-category | this page [?] (the question mark link on the end of the line takes you to the Wikidot FAQ on this subject). If it's a site | category | page you're already watching, you'll see options to stop watching.
Official docs are here:
http://www.wikidot.com/faq:watching
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I am the master admin of a wikidot site. To experiment, I created another wikidot ID in another browser. As master admin, I invited "myself" as a member. As a member i edited a comment to see what would happen. I made sure that as master admin I was "watching" the site. I have not received the expected email notification. What am I missing? Thanks.
Edits to existing comments don't send out notifications. Try creating a new page, editing an existing page or adding a new comment. All of those events will trigger a notification.
Hi guys,
please, is there any option how to set up email notification to show me what changes exactly some user did? I recieve an email, see who did change and on what page, but thats all. I need to see exactly what people changes on my site, because its for school and when they change some information, I wish I knew which one..
Thanks for tips Marek
Your only option at this point is to click the link to the page and then inspect the history. You can use the compare feature to see wat changed from one revision to another. There has already been a wish submitted asking the developers to implement something like this. You can vote it up here. In three days, that wish will be five years old, so I don't have much hope for it being done anytime soon.
If you go to the page that has been changed, click on the History options button at the bottom of the page. Then using the radio buttons on the left of the revisions list select the two version you want to compare (or leave them as the 2 most recent revisions have already been selected). Then click the Compare Versions button. The source of the page will e shown and it will highlight what changes have been made between the two versions.
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Hi guys,
Is there any option/module for watching user/follow user?
Thanks
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I'm afraid not. The only suggestion I have is if you want to check a user's activity, you could view their profile page and, if it's public, you can view recent activity and recent posts. Then again, if you have site-specific user profiles, that probably won't help much.
thanks, let me try it
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