Watchlist subscriptions
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Ideas/proposal
Why
[edit]To help organize timely admin attention on articles which need it. And to help users to keep track of articles that they are interested in.
What
[edit]Users may subscribe their account to a special watchlist channel. When an article is pushed onto the channel it will be added to the watchlists of all subscribing users. Users will also receive a notification of additions, similar to the 'you have messages' notification.
How
[edit]Special pages
[edit]- a list of channels with subscribe/unsubscribe interface
- a method for creating and managing channels
- a convenient way to add pages to a channel (from a toolbox link?)
Tables
[edit]watchchannels:
- wc_id
- wc_restriction [empty, or list of groups who can push?]
watchchannel_users
- wcu_user -> user_id
- wcu_channel -> wc_id
- wcu_update (timestamp)
May also want to add a generalizable notification infrastructure:
notifications
- n_user -> user_id
- n_timestamp
- n_expiry
- n_summary (comment-formatted)
- n_text (wikitext-formatted?)