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1 Description

A notification feature like the one used in forums would be very usefull for wikipages. Users can decide to keep an eye on a wiki page or on the entire wiki and activate this notification. ILIAS sends a mail to the user when this page or any page in the entire wiki has been edited.

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  • If you write a new posting in a forum you create one single event that can trigger a notification. If you edit a wiki page you do several things like change the headline, add a text block and fix a typo. For ILIAS these are several single events. But for the receiver of the notification it is rather one event - the change of the wiki page. So we need a solution to avoid sending dozends of notification mails during the editing of one single page.

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3 Additional Information

  • If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Matthias Kunkel

4 Discussion

Little, 3 MAR 2009: In a forum it's clear when the message should be sent: Every new posting. But in a wiki? Every new page? Every editing? (irritating!)

Matthias, 24 APR 09: How about a selection between "small" and "major" change (as known from Mediawiki). Notifications are sent only when a major change has been made. This decission has to be made by the author. I do not see any possible automatism.

Michael, 2 MAY 09: I agree with Matthias, you should be able to be notificated of new pages AND to be notificated of changes in specific pages. This would be very usefull for teachers to follow the progress in Wikis they administrate.

Little, 12/06/2009:
@Matthias: So the trigger of the notification would be the author her-/himself and not the system. I agree. But I am honestly too lazy to decide with EVERY editing the importance of my new text. So it shouldn't be a forced decision. Only if one wants to trigger a notification, the author should have to do something extra.

Next question: To whom will the notification be sent? > To everyone who has activated the notification-modus (like in the forum)? To selected people? To the first author of the wikipage? To the wiki-owner?

JF 16 Nov 2009: We highly appreciate the feature.

Another option for the notification procedure would be to only sent "aggregated" changes once a day via cron-job. In this case the author would not need to distinguish between small and major changes, since it would prevent mail flooding.

The "who-should-get-the-mail-behaviour" should be consistent with the forums. So the user who wants to get notifications must activate the feature.

jrocho 17-01-2009: We (FH Dortmund) would also like a notification feature on page changes (I would also vote for notifications on "major" changes). But more importantly (for us) there should additionally be an option to get notified about comments. That could be configurable by the creator of the Wiki. Either set it to "always" notify commentators/creator of a wiki page when a new public comment is added, or add a checkbox to the comment form to allow the commentator to receive notifications of follow-up comments. If it is set to "always" by the creator of the wiki, the commentators must be able to unsubscribe at their own discretion.

Andreas R. 26 Feb 2010: Please also note Mail notifications for Recent Changes - maybe the two feature pages can be merged in the future.

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Last edited: 17. Apr 2025, 15:11, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]