Still doing it. If it's not even coded yet, why is it happening to me? Here's one of the more interesting recent messages:
Dear Robin Patterson, There has been an edit to a page you are watching on London Wiki. See http://london.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Browse for the current version. This is a new page. The summary of the edit is: "Housekeeping: content was: 'This is our "top-level" category. Every other category and every article should be in at least one category. (''Any articles that are not can be ...' (and the only contributor was '[[Special:Contributions/Robin Patterson|Robin Patterson]]')" Please visit and edit often... London Wiki [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site ----- Original Message ----- From: "sannse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Central Wikia Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] Email notifications are getting deletions totally wrong > Hi Robin. > > It's normal for a mail to be sent on creation of a page you are > watching. The most common reason for a not-yet-existing page to be on > your watchlist is that it was deleted after you started watching it. > Although it is possible to choose to watch pages that don't exist yet > (just click the "watch" link at the title you want to watch) > > However, in this case the summary given in the mail does match the > deletion summary. We are planning to add deletions and moves to the > watchlist triggers - it's silly that a page you care about and are > watching can be deleted without your knowledge! But this isn't live > yet... in fact I just checked with the guy working on this and it's > not even coded yet. > > I've done some tests, and can't reproduce this... So please can > everyone look out for this and let me know if you see it happen? When > it happens by design, the email will clearly say that the watched page > was deleted... so you should be able to see if it's this strangeness > or the new feature. > > Thanks all, > > -- sannse > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Robin-P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Subject line says a page has been created. Which > > could make me wonder why I'm being notified - how > > could it be on my watchlist? > > > > Email starts like this: > > ------------------------------------------------ -- > > --------------- > > Dear Robin Patterson, > > > > There has been an edit to a page you are watching > > on Genealogy. > > > > See > > http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Harrison_Surname > > for the > > current version. > > > > This is a new page. > > > > The summary of the edit is: "Category moved. See > > [[Forum:Surnames]]." > > ------------------------------------------------ -- > > --------------- > > > > > > Last line gives me a clue in this case but it > > might not always. In fact the page has been > > deleted, not created. I click on the offered link > > and see this: > > > > ------------------------------------------------ -- > > ----------- > > Category:Harrison Surname > > >From Genealogy > > View or restore 7 deleted edits? > > Jump to: navigation, search > > > > Oops! Genealogy does not have a Category page with > > this exact name. > > > > * Click here to start this page or here to > > search for this phrase on the wiki. > > * If a page previously existed at this exact > > title, please check the deletion log. > > ------------------------------------------------ -- > > ----------- > > I hope this fault is on someone's TODO list. > > > > > > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, > > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, > > New Zealand > > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 > > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp > > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free > > cooperative MediaWiki site > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
