On Wednesday 02 November 2005 20:02, Rick Tanner wrote:
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      What are people thoughts of having the wiki automatically email/post
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      updates and changes to the mailing list in a context diff format?
     
Could be useful, I (at least) would like that. 

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      Here's an exmaple:
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      A page in your DokuWiki was added or changed.
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      Note: I removed the IP-Address, Hostname and User information; otherwise
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      these details are included in the email message.  How much of a concern
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      is this for people?
     
I would say that wikipedia have the right approach, username if there is one, 
and only if there isn't, then print the ip address.

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      Here's a sample:
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      Date        : 2005/11/01 19:12
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      Browser     : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux; X11; i686;
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      fr) KHTML/3.3.2 (like Gecko)
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      IP-Address  : ##.###.##.###
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      Hostname    : ##.###.##.###.hostname
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      Old Revision:
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      http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/document_repository?rev=1130657497
      
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      New Revision: 
      http://wiki.metalforge.net/doku.php/document_repository
      
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      Edit Summary:
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      User        : username
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      @@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
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        Please visit their respective webpages to find out more, or visit
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      their respective screenshots located at
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      http://crossfire.real-time.com/screenshots/clients/index.html
      
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        ===== Crossfire Monsters =====
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        They're big, they're small, they bite, they claw. You know them, you
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      love them - the monsters of Crossfire.
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      -
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      +   * [[Monsters from A to D]]
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          * [[The Behemoth]]
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          * [[The Dragons]]
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          * [[The Elementals]]
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          * [[The Lich]]
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Two points I would make. the first is that it would probably be better to 
group the messages, so that they are sent only once a day (or once a day per 
user?)
the second would be that the page name, and the edit summery should form the 
top line, followed by the username/ip adress. This would make it easier to 
skip over changes by trusted users, and catch any spammers (should they 
appear).