User Subscriptions

Users can subscribe to moin items in order to receive notifications about item changes. Item changes include:

  • creation of a new item

  • modification of an existing item

  • renaming of an item

  • reverting an item’s revision

  • copying of an item

  • deletion of an item

  • destruction of a revision

  • destruction of all item’s revisions

Make sure that Moin is able to send E-Mails, see Mail configuration.

Types of subscriptions

There are 5 types of subscriptions:

  • by itemid (itemid:<itemid value>)

    This is the most common subscription to a single item. The user will be notified even after the item is renamed, because itemid doesn’t change. If you click on Subscribe on item’s page, then you will be subscribed using this type.

  • by item name (name:<namespace>:<name value>),

    The user will be notified, if the name matches any of the item names and also its namespace. Keep in mind that an item can be renamed and notifications for this item would stop working if the new name doesn’t match any more.

  • by tag name (tags:<namespace>:<tag value>)

    The user will be notified, if the tag name matches any of the item tags and its namespace.

  • by a prefix name (nameprefix:<namespace>:<name prefix>)

    Used for subscription to a set of items. The user will be notified, if at least one of the item names starts with the given prefix and matches item’s namespace. For example if you want to receive notifications about all the items from the default namespace whose name starts with foo, you can use nameprefix::foo.

  • by a regular expression (namere:<namespace>:<name regexp>)

    Used for subscription to a set of items. The user will be notified, if the regexp matches any of the item names and also its namespace. For example, if you want to receive notifications about all the items on wiki from the default namespace, then you can use namere::.*

Editing subscriptions

The itemid subscription is the most common one and will be used if you click on Subscribe on item’s page. Respectively the Unsubscribe will remove the itemid subscription.

If you were subscribed to an item by some other way rather than itemid subscription, then on Unsubscribe you will be told that it is impossible to remove the subscription and you need to edit it manually in the User Settings.

All the subscriptions can be added/edited/removed in the User Settings, Subscriptions tab. Each subscription is listed on a single line and is case-sensitive. Empty lines are ignored.

For itemid subscriptions, we additionally show the current first item name in parentheses (this is purely for your information, the name is not stored or used in any way).