After running about 6 months worth of emails from my watchlist changes in notifications, I encountered one that I see needs to be changed because it was inaccurate. While I do feel it’s a rather small change and doesn’t affect usability of the site, it’s information for these particular “edits” makes this email’s information incorrect.
You need to change the body to watchlist changes affecting page-deletions. While currently the subject says “wikiHow page (name) has been deleted by (username)…”, when you look at the body, it says “The wikiHow page (name) has been createdon (date) by (name)”, which is both incorrect - especially in spots where links have been left behind from Broken redirects - because the body contradicts the subject of this emailed change notification.
I think this has already been reported before:
My forums search tool also has not been doing very well, because when i went to look, it told me no postings were found. I didnt remember this ever coming up (frok the okd forums from back then - we used Vanilla Forums fyi), so somethings a brewin.
JayneG
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I think I’ve updated this message, @EpcotMagic
. Let me know if you continue to see errors! Thanks.
Since I dont get those emails often, I will have to trust that for now. Thank you.
I got an email for a watched image that got deleted that had “created” instead of “deleted” in the content. Could you check into it?
JayneG
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Hmm, seems it might be a different MediaWiki message and/or set a different way then. It’s a pretty low priority, so it may just be one of those quirks for now
@JayneG
@EpcotMagic
I fixed the issue. The $CHANGEDORCREATED variable in the email was deprecated in MediaWiki version 1.21 (we’re on 1.33), so I replaced it with the new variable and did some minor tweaking. Tested it with @Bhoimus
and it appears to be back and better than ever. The watchlist email will now properly inform you if the page has been changed, created, deleted, moved, or restored
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Thank you, @Tiagoroth
. Wonderful.
