Subscribing to Wiki Changes

Subscribing to wiki changes allows you to receive a notification any time a particular page on the wiki changes. There are three flavors of subscription:

• Subscribing to individual pages
• Subscribing to all pages
• Subscribing to a namespace

Important: You must have a wiki account and be logged in to manage your page subscriptions. If you don't have an account yet, read how to create a wiki account.

Here's how it works:

1. Browse to the page for which you would like to add a subscription
2. Click the “Manage Subscriptions” button at the bottom of the page
3. Select the first option under the “Subscribe” box. This should be the address of the page you are on. For example, subscribing to this page will show “howto:subscribe_to_changes”.
4. Choose your notification method, either once for every change, or a digest email sent less frequently.
5. Click the subscribe button.

1. Go to the start page.
2. Click the “Manage Subscriptions” button at the bottom of the page.
3. Select the second option under the Subscribe box. This should be a single asterisk(*) character.
4. Choose your notification method, either once for every change, or a digest email sent less frequently.
5. Click the subscribe button.

Some parts of the wiki are organized into namespaces.This is denoted in the page address by a colon(:). For instance, this page is under the “How To” namespace, so the page address starts with “howto:” followed by the page title “subscribe_to_changes”. Subscribing to a namespace is similar to the method for all pages, except for the starting point:

1. Browse to a page that is part of the namespace to which you want to subscribe. To see all the namespaces, click the “Sitemap” button at the top right of any page. The bold entries with arrows next to them are the namespaces. You can click any one of them to expand the list and then browse to one of the pages contained within.
2. Click the “Manage Subscriptions” button at the bottom of the page.
3. Select the second option under the Subscribe box. This should be the namespace followed by a colon(:) and an asterisk(*). So, for this page, it should read “howto:*”
4. Choose your notification method, either once for every change, or a digest email sent less frequently.
5. Click the subscribe button.

After you click subscribe, you should see a message at the top of your screen indicating that you have been added to the subscription list for whatever page you subscribed to.