MediaWiki-CopyWatchers

A MediaWiki extension which allows a pages editor to add the watchers of one page to the page being edited using the parser function #copywatchers

Notes

To-dos, random thoughts, things to consider...

Possible considerations

• When saving a page with no (or few) watchers, promt with "would you like to add watchers?" and give suggestions basd on content.

Code Considerations

Possible Hooks to use:

• Manual:Hooks/AlternateUserMailer (MW 1.19+)
• Manual:Hooks/AbortEmailNotification (MW 1.20+)

Manual:Hooks/ArticleSave

Use this for MW 1.20 and earlier

####Define Function: public static function onArticleSave( &$article, &$user, &$text, &$summary, $minor, $watchthis, $sectionanchor, &$flags, &$status ) { ... }

####Attach hook: $wgHooks['ArticleSave'][] = 'MyExtensionHooks::onArticleSave';

Manual:Hooks/PageContentSave

Use this for MW 1.21 and later

####Define function: public static function onPageContentSave( $wikiPage, $user, $content, $summary, $isMinor, $isWatch, $section ) { ... }

####Attach Hook: $wgHooks['PageContentSave'][] = 'MyExtensionHooks::onPageContentSave';