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Email updates (aka. notifications)#96

When my team member updates a page I have updated before
I want to see the diff
So I can keep up to date on my wiki

Should be configurable by user based on type of updates, frequency of emails, etc.

5 years ago

This would be very helpful… especially if it includes a graphical text difference analyzer like KDiff. The particular use case I am thinking of is when I copy the new version of Facebook ad policy as a Google Doc to be able to quickly see what we need to re-think for campaigns to remain compliant. It is SUPER PAINFUL to have your account shut down because you missed an important change because we were eyeballing the differences…. so even if I update a page or a team member updates a page, I would like to be able to (be notified) and be able to click something and launch a diff analysis of a previous doc version. Thanks!

5 years ago

Sounds great @Alorrinda thanks for the detail :)

5 years ago

Some type of change alert such as this would be a hugely important feature to add in my opinion.

Maybe not as narrow as receiving an update only on docs you’ve edited. Instead I’d want to select any page or folder and make myself a “watcher”. I then get notified whenever an update is made to the page or any sub-pages of the folder.

Even more advanced would be to set notifications to fire if a document has NOT been updated for awhile.

The goal of all of these notifications are to ensure the wiki is kept up to date. I as an authority of some section of the wiki am notified when any changes are made to the documentation. Also, I’m notified if a page might have gone stale when there have not been any recent changes.

This rabbit hole can go even deeper possbily. Maybe under a certain setting all edits are only “suggestions” until the page owner comes in and approves it.

Of course all of these features are not needed off the jump. Starting with any type of “watcher/notification” function would be a massive leap forward.

My company sees this as a critical feature in a wiki, and the only solutions I see now are google chrome extensions. These browser extensions bring security concerns.

5 years ago
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