Users are discussing a bug where notifications for edited Wiki posts are not sent to anyone except the original author, despite edits being made by others. Mohammad first reported not receiving notifications after editing a Wiki post as a different user. codinghorror confirmed this is intentional for now — only authors are notified — but noted it may be a bug reported by DeanMarkTaylor. DeanMarkTaylor emphasized the lack of any notification system for post edits (traditional or Wiki), even when watching a topic, and suggested Facebook-style post-specific notifications. codinghorror stated no plans exist to address this in the near future, though ownership could be assumed if needed. jomaxro noted that moderators or admins can’t claim ownership of posts unless they’re the original author. david proposed a system message for every Wiki OP edit, similar to a “watched post” feature. sam suggested such a feature should be optional (default off) and possibly implemented via a plugin or core PR, depending on polish. sam also flagged a related issue: “admin posts” currently receive no notifications, and enabling notifications for them risks flooding users. jomaxro floated a workaround: treating admin edits as regular post edits with an optional flag to trigger notifications, though this may be complex internally. The thread remains open for further discussion on implementation and notification logic.
This is something strange. I have made one topic a wiki post and kept it open. Then inside another browser I login with a different user id. I edited the wiki post and then I checked the forum on my admin ID. I did not received any notification whatsoever that could tel me that someone actually contributed to the post and edited it? Am I missing something here or some setting is required. Why are we not receiving notifications for wiki post edits?
Is the original author of wiki post the sole publisher?
Does wiki posts means, the community edits the post and the original author is the only one accepting the edits and publishing the post with new edits?
This is actually a bug that @DeanMarkTaylor reported. Somehow tags are being carried to other topics by other users. Those tags were not used by the OP!
There doesn’t appear to be a way to get notified for post edits…
(both traditional post edits and Wiki post edits).
For post traditional post edits and Wiki post edits.
I always find myself here on meta wanting to know when updates are made to specific posts and wiki posts.
Watching a topic doesn’t help here.
Post based notifications for users
On Facebook whilst “posts” are more like “topics” here on meta it’s possible to “turn on notifications for post” to be notified of any activity related to the post (likes, comments).
After you change the notification setting the grey info box appears above in the feed.
I like this idea, and think it could work well in my community (we’re considering moving our wiki from mediawiki into discourse). Is it something that would be considered as a PR to core, or should I be thinking about a plugin?
Alternatively, is there now a better solution for allowing people to “watch/track” a wiki post for changes?
I think if you can get it working in a polished way and be “default off” I would consider it for core.
The critical feature is that the “edited wiki” needs to be expandable to see the actual diff and multiple edits by one user need to be coalesced if they follow each other.
Also there is a problem that needs figuring out notification wise. At the moment these “admin posts” get no notifications, I don’t want to play with that, it would be very very high risk of “pointless information flood” but it leaves open the problem of “how can you tell that people have mucked with a wiki you are tracking”
Not knowing the internal structure this may be a crazy, complicated idea, but…
Could the admin posts be given an optional parameter (default false) that when true acts like a standard post for notification/tracking stuff? Then no existing admin posts will change, but wiki edits could give the true parameter.
