Wiki Topic Alerts

Concept mock · Topic-level Wikipedia watching

Don’t watch pages.
Follow topics.

Follow a topic on Wikipedia and get an alert plus a tidy digest whenever any article in that topic changes — not just the pages on your watchlist.

Wikipedia’s built-in watchlist tracks individual articles you already know about. This concept tracks a subject area instead, so you hear about new and edited articles you would never have thought to watch.

Wikipedia watchlist — today

Per-article, manual, easy to miss things

  • You have to find and add every single article yourself
  • A brand-new article on your subject never appears
  • Related articles drift out of date without you noticing
  • Checking means visiting each page’s history
This concept — topic-level

Per-topic, automatic, digest-first

  • Follow “Ocean exploration” once — dozens of articles included
  • New articles in the topic surface in your digest
  • Edits are summarised in plain language, not raw diffs
  • One weekly email, plus instant alerts for major changes only

How it would work

Three steps — demo below uses samples

1

Pick a topic

Search for a subject — a field, an era, a technology — rather than a single article title.

2

Get alerts that matter

Major rewrites and new sections ping you right away. Small fixes quietly batch up.

3

Read one digest

A short weekly email: what changed, why it matters, and links to the diffs — nothing else.

Try a sample topic

Samples

Tap a topic to jump straight into its sample alerts and digest preview. No account, no live data.

Interactive demo

All alerts & dates below are samples

Typing any topic generates labelled sample alerts for that name so you can feel the flow. It does not search Wikipedia.

Now showing samples for: Ocean exploration Sample data

Sample alerts

Sample alerts

Diff summaries above are paraphrased samples, written for this mock — not copied from any real edit.

Sample digest email

Preview only

Staging placeholder: this field stores nothing, sends nothing, and creates no account. In a real product this is where a digest subscription would live — here it only demonstrates the layout.

My topics

Sample counts · changes are in-memory only for this session

Added topics appear in the list below with a sample count of 0. Refreshing the page resets everything — by design for a mock.

6
Topics followed
68
Sample alerts this week
Mon 8am
Next sample digest

Counts, “last change” times, and frequencies are all samples. Tapping a topic opens its sample alerts in the demo.