Getting Mediawiki notifications

Question

Some users would like to get notifications of changes to a relatively small mediawiki instance. RSS feeds are not ideal for a number of reasons.

My ideal would be a daily (or configuble period) mail of all changes that have been made. Features I am looking for include

• batching of changes to a single page during the period (often a page changes a number of times and you don't need to know every blow by blow change
• Including by category
• excluding by specific categories

Is there any such solution (maybe a plugin or standalone program) that can be recommended. I am an administrator of the wiki and sysadmin of its hosting machine.

Answer 1

MediaWiki has email notification built in.

With the CategoryWatch extension you can watch pages in a particular category and get emailed on changes.

I don't know anyway to batch changes (except you can exclude minor changes) or exclude specific categories.