Hi all, noting that I've made an external forum notifications service for Wikidot.
To get notifications all you need to do is create your config page by following the instructions here: http://notifications.wikidot.com/
Although I'm a member of staff on EN, this service is run only by me, not by EN. It is open to any Wikidot user and can be enabled (with my approval) for any Wikidot site. I'm only mentioning it here on the SCP Wiki specifically for convenience's sake.
Using the service is free, but it does cost me money to run; I gratefully accept any donations to help out. (read more)
How it works
The service keeps track of all new posts posted to its supported sites. Every hour (or less often, depending on your config; see below) it checks to see if you are subscribed to any of those new posts (see below regarding subscriptions). If you are, it compilies all the notifications for you in that time period into a single message and sends it to you.
Subscriptions
You can manually subscribe to any thread or post you like. You'll receive notifications for new posts to subscribed threads, and for new replies to subscribed posts. (read more)
You're automatically subscribed to threads that you started (by making the first post in it), and to posts that you made. However, you're not automatically subscribed to the discussion threads for pages that you created (unless you made the first post) - you'll have to subscribe to those manually. (read more)
You can also manually unsubscribe from any automatic subscriptions you don't want.
Receiving notifications
You can choose to receive notifications as often as hourly; or daily / weekly / monthly. You don't receive a notification if there's nothing to notify you about. (read more)
Notifications are delivered via your choice of Wikidot PM (for most users) or email (for site administrators whose Wikidot inboxes are already clogged). (read more)
Supported sites / languages
The notification service can support any Wikidot site, but currently only supports a few (see the full list). I'll only add support for another site with the consent of its management — if you represent a Wikidot site (e.g. an SCP branch) and would like to enable notifications for it, please let me know!
Notifications are able to be delivered in any language, but currently only a few are supported - I'd love some contributions from translators to help here. (read more)
At the time of this post:
- notifications are enabled for the following sites in the SCP network: SCP-DE, SCP-EN, SCP-FR, SCP-INT, SCP-VN, WL-EN, O5-EN, O5-FR (see the full list)
- notifications can be delivered in the following languages: English, French, Vietnamese (thank you to
Dr Lekter and
StupifPotato for contributing translations) (see the full list)
Please note that the documentation on http://notifications.wikidot.com/ is only available in English (although I understand that FR is working on a French translation).