Tutorial:Managing your articles

This tutorial provides a general overview of the tools by which authors or any other 'allowedusers' (with the right to edit in Statistics Explained) can monitor specific articles or past activity in Statistics Explained.

Watching a page

In order to be aware of anything happening to a Statistics Explained page you are responsible for or interested in, you can add this page to your 'Watchlist'. As a result, you will be informed by an e-mail notification whenever the page is changed, validated etc. See below for types of messages.

Special:Watchlist/Debusmc

Special:EditWatchlist

E-mail notifications

Please note that if you do not look at the page after having received a change message, you will not receive any further change messages! The system implicitly assumes that you are already aware of changes on this page, and the need to look at it.

These e-mail notifications also inform the Statistics Explained editorial team about activity on the page so that a proper reaction is possible, when necessary.

A notification message has two main parts:

• the first one gives infomation about who did what to which page;
• the second one consists of two direct links:

• to the current version of the page (normally a draft version);
• to a page showing the changes from the stable page to the latest draft version.

Types of messages

Messages are structured in this general way:

Action by User: TYPE_OF_PAGE Page_name

With

• Action =
  • Created: creation of a new Statistics Explained page (including File, Category, Talk, etc.);
  • Moved to another name or to the archive;
  • Changed: a change has been done to an article which the Unit editor should sight (approve) ; or, alternatively, reject;
  • Deleted
  • Sighted: by Unit editor, prompts the Dissemination unit to validate the page.
  • Validated means that all edits since the previous validation have been validated by the Dissemination unit and that the draft now has become the new stable page, visible to the outside.

the 7-digit userid of the logged-in user having performed the action (Eurostat staff or external contractor with temporary log-in); see list of users.

• Type of page =
  • PAGE (including tutorials in namespace 'Tutorial')
  • FILE
  • TALK
  • GLOSSARY
  • USER
  • CATEGORY

• Page name = the Statistics Explained name of the page, file, category etc.;

Destination of notification e-mails

All e-mails are sent to:

• the Statistics Explained mailbox estat-statistics-explained@ec.europa.eu;
• any user 'watching' this page, who has added it to his/her watchlist (see Managing your articles).

Activating the watchlist

To add a page to your Watchlist:

• log in to have the necessary access;
• at the bottom right of the page you want to be kept informed about, click 'Watch'.

If you want to undo this, and no longer receive e-mail notifications:

• click 'Unwatch' at the same place, at the bottom right of the screen.

Verify that you will get notification e-mails (you need to do this only once):

• click 'My preferences' in 'editor's toolbox' (left column, at the bottom), then on 'User profile' (top), and make sure that

• your personal information is correct;
• the box 'E-mail me when a page on my watch list is changed' is ticked.

Click 'My watchlist' in 'editor's toolbox' (left column, at the bottom) to further manage your watchlist.

User contributions

If you want an overview of your (or somebody else's) contributions in Statistics Explained:

• go to your (or somebody else's) user page (via 'Special pages' in 'Tools' in navigation on the left, 'Users and rights', 'User list', and clicking the desired username) and then click 'User contributions' in 'Tools';

• or directly by typing 'Special:Contributions/Username' (e.g. Special:Contributions/Debusmc) in the search window and clicking 'go'.

List of articles 'owned' by a Unit

All articles in Statistics Explained are assigned to a unit who 'owns' them and is responsible for their content (see tutorial describing how articles are assigned). All articles a particular unit is responsible for are grouped in a category called 'Unit A3, 'Unit B4', 'Unit C1' etc.; this list is of most interest to the persons responsible for dissemination in a particular unit or to its hierarchy.

They can be accessed in several ways:

• type 'Category:Unit A3' etc. in the search window and click the name in the dropdown list or 'Go';
• go to 'Categories' in 'Navigation' in the left column, type 'u' in the search window 'Display categories starting at' on top, enter, and then click the appropriate unit from the list.