2 years later there is still no watchlist support?
I plan to add Echo on my wiki, but this will be the first thing users will miss.
Topic on Talk:Notifications
Email Notification for Pages on User's Watchlist
The current system of email notifications for pages on a user's watchlist needs improvement:
- It is not clear which types of edits (normal, minor, or bot) will trigger emails.
- Because the notification emails stop if a user doesn't visit the changed page while logged-in, it can be difficult to report any problems with the notification emails, because the reporter will always be asked if they are sure they visited the page.
- I would personally like a notification email for every change to a page on my watchlist, whether I visited the page after the last change or not.
- The current system has reported bugs.
See the following tasks in Phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29884 - Enotif doesn't send email if page on watchlist edited following a minor edit and enotif not configured to send minor edits.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40874 - Minor bot edits don't trigger email notifications even with "E-mail me also for minor edits of pages" selected.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110850 - Wikipedia Watchlist Notification Emails Not Arriving.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114587 - Email notification for every single change to a page on watchlist.
Someone came up with a patch for that in T203942.
I haven't tried though.