[R-wiki] Individual wiki page RSS feeds

[Philippe Grosjean]

Peter Cowan wrote:
> Does the DocuWiki engine support having RSS feeds for individual
> pages.  It's appears that it does not support email notifications. 
> I'm thinking people will be very curious about certain pages, but not
> others.  A package maintainer for example may want to know every
> change on the pages related to their package, but not be interested in
> minute changes all over the rest of the wiki.  As the page grows and
> user base increases there will be a flood of changes that will
> probably be more than everyone is interested in keeping up with.
> 
> cheers
> 
> peter

Good question! Yes, definitely. I have seen an option in DokuWiki that 
pops up a new button called 'Email notify', or so. It is a by-page and 
by-user notification system, using plain email (I don't know if there is 
an RSS equivalent, but it must be?).

Now, to enable that feature, I need to turn ACL on (currently, there is 
no restrictions at all), and to "link" DokuWiki to an SMTP server (not a 
big deal). Moreover, I don't want that people ask for notification for 
given pages right now, because it is a *prototype* of the R Wiki, 
meaning that such info will be lost when we will move to the actual 
server, or it will be too much work for me to backup and restore these 
infos.

That explains why that feature is not active yet. I just add a line in 
the TODO list, to make sure I will not forget to activate it in the 
final server.

Best,

Philippe Grosjean