Version Enotif+Eauthent EN+EA v2.00/CVS, 14.12.2004
written by Thomas Gries, Berlin and Markus Arndt, Munich
Executive summary for the impatient reader:
Enotif adds e-mail notification to MediaWiki and sends e-mails
to watching users when a watch-listed page or user_talk page is changed
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454
Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif
Eauthent is a mechanism to use a temporary one-time password cycle
to check whether the email address a user has entered is a valid one.
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866
Visit the complete documentation on http://meta.wikipedia.org/Eauthent
The current patch has only been checked for (see DefaultSettings.php):
- php mail()
( = not using PEAR:Mail() module --- I do not know anyone who uses that)
$wgSMTP = false;
- MySQL database
( = not using PostgreSQL --- I do not know anyone who uses that)
$wgDBtype = "mysql";
$wgSearchType = "MyISAM";
- STILL TODO:
NEW (newpageletter) and CORR (minoreditletter) markers needs
corresponding "spacers"
- table user_newtalk dropped; changes on usertalk pages and their
notifications are now fully handled via existing table watchlist
The user interface and behavious is unchanged to previous version.
- updaters.inc for compatibility with older mediawiki tables:
the conversion script converts existing user_newtalk entries
watchlist table entries
(user_newtalk) id ==> (watchlist) NS_USER_TALK:namefromId(id) timestamp=1
- minor bug fixes:
updated marker now correctly shown on watchlist page
watching users number display with enhanced RC view + RCUseModStyle
- wfUrlencode() instead of rawurlencode() in enotif mails
- duplicate enotif code moved from UserTalkUpdate.php and
merged into UserMailer.php and using usermailer() solely
- fixed an enotif mail text error for user names with spaces
- fixed missing part for suppressing watching user number
v1.36:
magic watchlist shows and counts now only the content page, notwithstanding
the content and talk page are stored separately in watchlist.
- bug fixed: rawurlencode for pagetitles in enotif mails
- bug fixed: link to userpages of anonymous user are correct now
bugs fixed regarding missing $oldid parameter
Implements almost all enotif options as user preferences.
These are only shown on the user preference page, if they are globally
enabled by the corresponding admin option in DefaultSettings.php.
Added admin feature to let enotifs appear to come from the page editor.
This facilitates automatic mail sorting and anti-spam filtering; feature was
originally proposed by Nick Triantos, thank you !
Page editor's email address is however only shown, if this user enabled
the option "reveal my email address" in user preferences. Otherwise,
the enotifs appear to come from WikiAdmin as usual (tricky to program,
but simply trust the algorithm. or look into UserMailer.php and
UserTalkPage.php).
- Changes from previous enotif versions
- v1.31 is an improved version with many security and also cosmetic changes
applied after two first reviews by Brion Vibber. v1.31 is basically the same as
the older Enotif v1.30 and v1.22 versions.
Added UseMod style for recent changes view so that only the most recent
change of any page is listed. The (diff) and (hist) still allow to retrieve the
older versions at users' discretion, but the RC view is much cleaner for
trusted environments such as medium-size companies or family wikis.
- Enotif v1.30 redesign after review by Brion Vibber 25.10.2003
- v1.22 "updated (since my last visit)" also shown for users without stored
email address in preferences, so that they can see, what watched pages
have changed.
- show "updated (since my last visit)" markers in RC, history and watchlist
- Systemvariables to suppress updated marker in all views
- show number of watching users in RC and on bottom of articles in
classic skin and in monobook skin
- Systemvariables in DefaultSettings.php to enable or disable features
- v1.21 now suppresses displaying the marker "updated (since my last visit)"
in recent changes view for the older (already visited) versions of watched
pages - i.e. page versions before the enotif was sent do not bear that
marker any longer.
- enotif mails come with a link to the diff view between current and last
visited version of the watching user.
- database structure is changed automatically when installing via the
recommended way (starting index.php and re-using the old database name).
run php /maintenance/update.php
OR see /maintenance/archives/patch-email-notification.sql and apply the
command
ALTER TABLE watchlist
ADD (wl_notificationtimestamp varchar(14) binary NOT NULL default '0');
manually to your database, which does not harm the non notification versions
- adding a page x to the watchlist does automatically add a watch
for the accompanying talk_page talk:x and vice versa;
