Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Sorry, I'm a little bit lost on exactly what is been proposed so correct me if I'm wrong...Hi, Is it possible to ask the bot to copy changes in a set of categories/namespaces to a SIG mailing list?
I'm taking it that your asking for the bot to go through and copy the wiki-diffs for pages in a specific category and then collate them and mail them out. Really this is a bit beyond what any wiki bot normally does, HOWEVER, you can use the API from memory to collate this information.
Luke did a brilliant application to collate the top 10 wiki contributors in any 500 edit-period - http://dpaste.com/61536/
Documentation for the Revision API component can be grabbed at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Properties#revisions_.2F_rv
Also take a look at my reply to Max with the type of tasks that I had in mind for the wikibot, the main thing is, we need it to keep interwiki links up to date (we can't expect people to go through 5+ wikis to make sure every interwiki link is correct), so while it's not doing interwikis it can do other tasks such as fixing syntax etc.
- Nigel