Watch pages

DokuWiki, like other wikis, including Wikipedia, allows you to be notified when anyone makes changes that you want to know about. Anyone can do this, if they have an interest in changes to a page, provided they are logged in and have registered their e-mail address — otherwise DokuWiki wouldn't know where to send the notifications

When more than one person is curating or editing wiki pages, everyone really needs to keep up with what anyone else is doing on the pages they are helping to curate. Having automatic notifications is so much easier than having to tell people individually, or having to set up a messaging list specially.

In that icon menu, on the right, you can see an envelope icon called “Manage Subscriptions”. When you are looking at the page you want to follow, click on that envelope icon. You will see:

• “Current Subscriptions”: where you can stop watching any you have added;
• “Add Subscription” to watch a page
  • Under “Subscribe”, the default is to watch just the page you are on; change to the one below if you want to watch all pages in this namespace
  • Under “Receive”, choose whether you want an e-mail for every change, or just one e-mail per day.

Then you can sit back and relax! Nothing will happen to the page without you being notified.

Most people, most of the time, use common sense when they are editing pages. So when someone changes a page you are watching, you will get an e-mail — you'll likely be fine with the changes. However, sometimes people make mistakes. If you think someone has made a mistake, first go to the “Old revisions” and see who it was. If it was a really, really terrible mistake, you can revert it: see editing saving reverting, and follow the instructions on the “Old revisions” page. But if it was something that different people may have reasonably different opinions about, again there are two obvious things you can do:

• contact the person who made the change, and have a respectful conversation about how to make changes that seem fair enough to both of you
• raise a point in our Forum. Near the bottom of the page you will see a link to the Forum — click there and start a new topic about that topic page, if there isn't one already.

In the future, we are intending to have a section on each page where curators can give their personal opinions, where there are different opinions on a matter.