Extension:Email notification/to-do

using namespace_title as index (as proposed here)

 * On Wednesday 11 August 2004 02:51 pm, Luis Casillas wrote: Something I've wanted to add to MediaWiki is email notifications of watchlist page changes. The users of the wiki I'm running have asked for this feature.

This should be fairly straightforward '''[available soon with this patch --Nyxos 22:36, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)] '''

On each commit, search the watchlist table for instances of that page and collect the returned user id's into an array. Step through the array, getting the email address associated with each id. Then send out a mail that's BCC'd to each address.

If the watchlist table gets very big, it could take a long time for the edit to be committed. However, the "namespace_title" field is already a table index, so it shouldn't be too bad unless it's a huge wiki, in which case, a flag in LocalSettings could disable the option.

Bruce

WikiAdmin broadcast email function

 * Sysops might need a tool to send a mail to all users with email addresses and or to place messages into all user_talk pages. This could also be done by a "global" broadcast template, which is automatically included (rendered, not inserted) into all user_talk pages.

watchlist bulk clear (clear all) function

 * with email notification, a user won't get hundreds of notifications for all watched pages