Wikipedia:SiteDelta tutorial
Now you can have two watchlists. SiteDelta is a watchlist add-on for Firefox (the free web browser). Like Wikipedia's watchlist, you can have SiteDelta keep track of changes to pages on Wikipedia, but you can also include pages from anywhere on the Web and watch for changes to those as well.
How to install SiteDelta
While using Firefox, click on the following link to install...
...the latest tested version of SiteDelta.
Set up SiteDelta to watch Wikipedia pages
- On Firefox's menu, click on Tools > Add-ons > SiteDelta > Options > Scan settings
- check-mark the JavaScript for site watch box (if it isn't checked already)
- Click "OK"
- Click on Options > Scan schedule
- check-mark the Site watch box - this makes SiteDelta alert you whenever a watch page gets changed
How to use SiteDelta
It's the triangle!
Once SiteDelta is set up (see above), SiteDelta's triangle icon will be displayed on the status bar in the bottom right corner of Firefox.
To add a page to your SiteDelta watchlist
Click on the triangle.
To view your SiteDelta watchlist
Ctrl-click the triangle.
Or rightclick on the triangle, and then click on "SiteDelta Sidebar" from the menu that pops up.
To modify the scanning behavior of SiteDelta
Select a portion of the page you are viewing (hold down the left mouse button and drag your mouse).
Rightclick on the triangle, and select "Regions". From the options provided, you can choose to have SiteDelta ignore the selected portion of the page, or watch it while ignoring everything else...
Ignore
Let's say I'm watching a blog and I'm watching a specific post for updates. But I don't want to be notified when there's new comments posted. I right-click the SiteDelta triangle and go to Regions > + Ignore region and hover my mouse over the comments section and click to ignore it.
Watch
This is sort of misleading, everything on the page is being watched regardless. +Watch is more like a "mass ignore" that ignores everything except the region(s) you click on. Let's say for this page http://userscripts.org/ I want to only watch the section "Web browser news". Clicking on it with the +watch would ignore everything except that section.
Remove regions
If you've +ignored or +watched a region and want to undo your action, right click the SiteDelta icon and go to regions and click on the region from the menu you'd like to undo.