Extension:AutoWatch

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AutoWatch Release status: stable
Implementation	User interface
Description	Add a custom defined list of user to watch any new or edited page + send an email on any new talk page
Author(s)	Brice Lenfant
Last version	1.0
MediaWiki	1.10
License	No license specified
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Hooks used ArticleSaveComplete
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Extension:AutoWatch adds a custom list of users to watch any new or edited page plus send an email on any new talk page.

Usage

Save the code below to AutoWatch.php in MediaWiki's extensions folder.

Add the following line in the LocalSettings.php file:

$wgMultiWatchUserIDs = array(5, 3, 2, 6, 64, 9); #This is the list of your users' IDs to include in this mailing list
require_once("extensions/AutoWatch.php");

Code

This code has been tested on MediaWiki 1.12.

History:

• 21 Nov 2007 -- Version 1.1 -- First release.

<?php
#########################################################################
# Installation notes, add array $wgMultiWatchUserIDs to LocalSettings.php with all uses ID's to include
# Example
#                     $wgMultiWatchUserIDs = array(5, 3, 2, 6);
# then add the line:  require_once("extensions/AutoWatch.php");
#
########################################################################
$wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array(
        'name' => 'AutoWatch',
        'version' => '1.0',
        'author' => 'Brice Lenfant',
        'description' => 'Add any new edited/created page to the watch list of defined users',
        'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutoWatch',
);
 
 
$wgHooks['ArticleSaveComplete'][] = 'fnAddToWatch';
 
function fnAddToWatch(&$article, &$user, &$text, &$summary, &$minoredit, &$watchthis, &$sectionanchor, &$flags, $revision) {
        global $wgMultiWatchUserIDs;
        foreach ($wgMultiWatchUserIDs as $value){
                #Add to watch
                $user = User::newFromId($value);
                $user->addWatch( $article->mTitle );
                #Send email if it's a new talk 
                if ( $article->mTitle->isTalkPage ()){
                        $eTitle = "Talk Page changed or created in Wiki  - ".$article->mTitle->getTalkNsText().':'.$article->mTitle->getDBkey();
                        $eBody = $article->mTitle->GetFullURL();
                        $user->sendMail($eTitle, $eBody );
                }
        }
        return true;
}