The issue posted here is still an issue.
The solution provided (to have someone manually purge the site) does not work because that solution was listed for private sites only (or at least that is what was said on the old bug report). The site in question must have some public pages for clients and some private pages therefore the site is open but with member only staff categories.
The result is that some former employees*, interns* and guests* that were accidentally watching the entire site now watch every page including staff only categories even though they are no longer members of the site. Now that I'm working on a wikidot alternative to our old site, this old problem is once again a prominent pain in the ass.
Two suggestions:
1. There needs to be an admin option to remove any watcher regardless of membership option to the site.
2. Sites also need to be setup so that new users joining a site don't automatically watch the entire site.
#2 above is what has led to this problem. At the moment, anytime we get a new employee or intern I have to give them the wikidot watching speech and have them unwatch the site that they just joined.
- unwanted watchers for site http://emg.wikidot.com/staff:main
I think, it is neccessary too - to prevent ( or better exclude) "private" Pages& Catgegories from watching by "non-membe
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We are working on a solution to this issue.
Just to make clear - although non-members are wrongly listed as watchers on pages they do not have access to, they will not receive any notifications related to these pages.
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Okay thanks, it is easier to tolerate if we know that that this is a planned fix.
We have just pushed the first fix — the list of people receiving activity notifications is now correctly generated. If a person is not allowed to access a page, he will not be listed as a watcher.
I believe it fixes the most urgent part of the problem.
The other things you mentioned is to be able to enable/disable auto-watching and to remove particular users from watching. How important these are after this first fix is available?
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Being able to enable/disable auto-watching is probably the most important of those two.
An even more useful feature would be the ability to specify certain pages/categories that should be auto-watched when someone joins.
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It's rather an enhancement of watching feature than a part of this bug, so if you want, please submit a wish.