The new wiki does not allow to use some wildcards to monitor several changes and also only sends notifications only once for a wikipage until one visits it again. I miss both features very much, because I followed some changes only via the diffs I got via mail, e.g. for the Packaging/ namespace. The only possibility to provide these features without patching mediawiki would be to create a notification user that has a mailinglist as e-mail address and is configured with
$wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges = array('NotificationMailinglist'); assuming that the User is called "NotificationMailinglist'. Within mailman it is possible to create topics to only subscribe to mails that match a regular expression. Here it would be useful to create a topic for each major namespace, e.g. Packaging, PackageMaintainers, to reduce the amount of e-mails a user will get at least a little.