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Add a user watchlist

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T2470

Allow editors to "watch this user" by adding a tab or link on user (talk) pages, contributions, history, Special:Block and other appropriate places, and a separate user-watchlist special page which lists the latest contributions from users on the list.

  • As an admin, I want to be able to check on potentially problematic editors at some time in the future.
  • As an experienced user, I want to follow each step of a newbie I'm coaching, to fix their edits, assist in their discussions, provide guidance in general, without having to watchlist all the pages they may edit, so that all my time is spent helping them
  • As a wiki trainer with dozens people to follow, I want to have a page where to have an overview of their complete activity, controlled by a "central" list of usernames which I can just edit/past in a single place. I can then act on specific edits/pages/users or just know what's going on overall.

Limit to admins only if necessary to mitigate stalking concerns. I currently use something I hacked up myself, but this really needs to be in core MediaWiki. MER-C (talk) 12:51, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier discussion and endorsements
For simple wiki training groups, there is toollabs:magnustools/herding_sheep.php. Nemo 15:00, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Endorsed Endorsed --V111P (talk) 06:47, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
See w:pt:Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Gadget-watchUserContribs. Helder 11:30, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Endorsed Endorsed--Liridon (talk) 14:01, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed With use limited to admins or those holding a new, associated userright ("watcher"?), if necessary. Fluffernutter (talk) 17:22, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Doesn't this seem a little stalkerish? Anyone wanting to look at someone's contribs can do that, but it would feel quite creepy to think that, every time one makes an edit, a particular person is alerted. It would make no difference if that person were an admin. Sarah talk 21:40, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • We can also make watchlists public with reasons given for watching and additions and removals logged (like mine is). One would then presume that abuse of the tool would lead to desysopping. MER-C (talk) 12:25, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed as an admin tool only. This could be very helpful in monitoring problematic users contribs, but it does seem to also have the potential for abuse. Of course, the tool could be developed and projects could decide locally who should have access. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:22, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed --Gnom (talk) 09:59, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed It is a bit stalkish. For that reason each project should decide who gets to use this ability or if it is turned on at all. Davidwr/talk 06:10, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed If "watching" good editors or good admins, or "bad actors" (esp. IP vandals), makes one "stalkerish", so be it... IJBall (talk) 03:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed This would automate actions that can already be accomplished manually. It would be helpful for watching future actions of confirmed vandals and spammers, which is not necessarily an admin task. I'm fine with making this a user-right that needs to be requested (perhaps a similar procedure as asking for rollbacker rights). Etamni (talk) 07:09, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed 4nn1l2 (talk) 00:12, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed The use case for me is when I detect a vandal and want to check any subsequent edits by them. That means the feature would have to support IP addresses too. On the other hand, an automatic expiration in, say, two weeks would be acceptable to prevent long term stalking.--ArnoldReinhold (talk)
  • Comment Comment (I already endorsed above) I endorse adding the code and making it immediately available to admins, I endorse encouraging local wikis to discuss who else will have access, and I endorse extensions to remove privacy concerns such as allowing each user to have a special only-the-editor-and-admins-can-change-it (or even -see-it) "whocanwatchlistme" page where they can add a list of accounts who can watch them. This would allow things like professors requiring students to allow the professor to "watchlist them" when they are editing with an account set up specifically for that class. Davidwr/talk 22:54, 25 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  1. Support Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support as proposer. MER-C (talk) 09:48, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support Samwalton9 (talk) 10:41, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support Lugnuts (talk) 12:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support Looking through this page, I wonder if the watchlist needs a total rewrite from scratch... This, that and the other (talk) 13:30, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support. --Stryn (talk) 19:14, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support Matiia (talk) 20:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support Grind24 (talk) 20:31, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support OK. xaosflux Talk 00:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support there's a sort of work-around by watching the user talk p. and hoping problems show up there, but this is much more direct. DGG (talk) 02:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support. I think this is a desirable thing, even if it's decided to restrict it to Admins or special usergroups. IJBall (talk) 03:27, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support, Linedwell (talk) 12:16, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support--Syum90 (talk) 12:21, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support Support tufor (talk) 14:54, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Support --Arnd (talk) 14:58, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support --Infinite0694 (Talk) 16:02, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Support JackPotte (talk) 16:11, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support SupportSadads (talk) 16:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support Support Goombiis (talk) 16:36, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Support Support --Dodi123 (talk) 17:14, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Support Support --Tdslk (talk) 19:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Support Support -- Akela (talk) 21:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Support Support --Usien6 (talk) 21:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC) // Should be consistently integrated into the regular watchlist.[reply]
  24. Support Support --Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:06, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Support Support also for non-admins. It can be useful to track infrequent vandals too. Stalking, if that's a concern, is already possible with the regular 'user contributions' too. Gap9551 (talk) 22:17, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Support Support Helder 23:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Support Support Tar Lócesilion (queta) 00:14, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Support Support Very useful idea. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:19, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Support Support Chaoborus (talk) 02:28, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-wiki watchlist

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T5525

Now that SUL finalization is complete, there is no longer an obvious obstacle to developing a proper cross-wiki watchlist. This is a very old request (phab:T5525 from September 2005) and has been cited as one of the reasons why users on, say, Wikipedia are reluctant to branch out and participate on Meta, Commons, etc. There has been an effort to develop this as an external OAuth tool (phab:T92955), but it really should be developed within MediaWiki itself, dovetailing in with the existing Special:Watchlist page in some manner. This, that and the other (talk) 10:05, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier discussion and endorsements
Note: the bug had 32 votes. --Nemo 11:00, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: Upcoming phab:T92955 is released as Crosswatch. --Menner (talk) 06:39, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Right now every time I want to check my watchlist, I do it separately for Persian Wikipedia, Commons, English Wikipedia, Meta, and Wikidata. I have to open five pages and check them one by one. If we can have a central place for all of my watched pages (or at least some number of opt-in wikis). It would make my life much easier. We do have a tool in WMF Labs but something integrated with mediawiki sounds more convenient to users. Amir (talk) 23:47, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Endorsed Endorsed. This is also one of the reasons some people are so keen to just upload images locally rather than at Commons. Jenks24 (talk) 02:30, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I was just thinking about cross-wiki watchlist and also cross-wiki notifications yesterday :) Yes, please. --Edgars2007 (talk) 05:24, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Endorsed Endorsed. Helder 11:30, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Endorsed Endorsed Useful. בנימין (talk) 14:21, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  1. Support Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:27, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support Jenks24 (talk) 10:52, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support --Gnom (talk) 12:04, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support This, that and the other (talk) 13:27, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support Mr. Granger (talk) 17:42, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support Patrick87 (talk) 18:11, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support — Bilorv (talk) 19:33, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support Matiia (talk) 20:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 20:20, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support Grind24 (talk) 20:32, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support We have enough people at en:wp who refuse to use Commons for fear that their images will be deleted "without warning". This would presumably help alleviate that problem to an extent. Nyttend (talk) 21:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support Voll (talk) 21:45, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support ONUnicorn (talk)
  14. Support Support--Kippelboy (talk) 05:39, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Support--Gbeckmann (talk) 09:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support-- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Support Linedwell (talk) 12:16, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Support Waiting for this for years --mfb (talk) 12:24, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support Support--Syum90 (talk) 12:24, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Support Support tufor (talk) 14:56, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Support Support Wittylama (talk) 15:09, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Support Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:19, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Support Support--KRLS (talk) 15:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Support Support - Master of Contributions (talk) 15:23, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Support Support --Continua Evoluzione (talk) 15:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Support Support--JohanahoJ (talk) 15:52, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Support Support --Infinite0694 (Talk) 16:02, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Support Support JackPotte (talk) 16:11, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Support SupportSadads (talk)
  30. Support Support Goombiis (talk) 16:37, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Support Support --Dodi123 (talk) 17:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Support Support --Isacdaavid (talk) 17:57, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Support Support Apokrif (talk) 20:03, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  34. Support Support --Hkoala (talk) 20:32, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Support Support --Akela (talk) 21:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  36. Support Support --Usien6 (talk) 21:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC) // Also the additional features from the Labs tool (eg. inline display of diff's) plus the ability to dismiss the notifications you already acknowledged (may be implemented with cookies to exempt the server from load) and a quick "send thanks" button.[reply]
  37. Support Support -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 21:51, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  38. Support Support --Nouill (talk) 21:59, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  39. Support Support --Tacsipacsi (talk) 22:08, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  40. Support Support Gap9551 (talk) 22:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  41. Support Support StevenJ81 (talk) 22:44, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  42. Support Support Helder 23:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  43. Support Support Tar Lócesilion (queta) 00:14, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  44. Support Support --Oriciu (talk) 00:56, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  45. Support Support Chaoborus (talk) 02:29, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  46. Support Support Popcorndude (talk) 03:54, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  47. Support Support provided that users can easily opt out of it. Would like to see it able to be selective as well, so that users can group together some but not all projects. Risker (talk) 04:35, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  48. Support Support Syced (talk) 05:20, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  49. Support Support Stanko (talk) 08:00, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  50. Support Support Litlok (talk) 08:40, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  51. Support Support Bgwhite (talk) 09:36, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dropdown diffs of last edits

This has been implemented in Crosswatch. It should be incorporated into Special:Watchlist too. It is revolutionary, and will make it easier to edit more. If editors can edit more in the same period of time, then that can help maintain the number of active editors (5 or more edits per month):

Earlier discussion and endorsements
Endorsed Endorsed Ottawahitech (talk) 04:38, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  1. Support Support --Usien6 (talk) 21:24, 1 December 2015 (UTC) // Plus the ability to dismiss the notifications you already acknowledged (may be implemented with cookies to exempt the server from load) and a quick "send thanks" button.[reply]


Section watchlists

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T2738

I would love to be able to watch sections of a page instead of whole articles, particularly for pages like Reference Desk. Otherwise, pertinent changes to sections that interest me get superceded by subsequent changes to other sections.

Earlier discussion and endorsements
Endorsed Endorsed Agree would be useful for ANI were all one may be interested in is certain sections. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 07:14, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Superseded by Flow? --Ricordisamoa 16:06, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes Flow would solve this issue I think. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:10, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No, because Flow is a failed experiment. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 14:43, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No, because the Future of Flow is unclear, and it doesn't alter the request to watchlist sections that aren't Flowized. Alsee (talk) 12:29, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Endorsed 'Endorsed'Support. Section watchlisting is a long requested and very valuable ability. This is clearly NOT Superseded by Flow, as Flow obviously doesn't work on non-Flow pages, and obviously can never work in Articlespace. Alsee (talk) 19:50, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Endorsed Endorsed --Gnom (talk) 21:19, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  1. Support Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support MisterSynergy (talk) 09:11, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support Samwalton9 (talk) 10:41, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support Jenks24 (talk) 10:51, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support --Gnom (talk) 12:04, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support Lugnuts (talk) 12:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support MrX (talk) 15:06, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support Menner (talk) 16:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC) Adding watchlist for the first heading level would be sufficient if UI looks overloaded during testing.[reply]
  9. Support Support Tryptofish (talk) 18:08, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support --Enos733 (talk) 18:49, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support Dalba 21:06, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support --UV (talk) 23:17, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support IJBall (talk) 03:29, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support Support Wugapodes (talk) 05:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Support —Ynhockey (talk) 09:27, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support — Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:29, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Support--Shizhao (talk) 09:45, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Support--JohanahoJ (talk) 15:54, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support Support --Infinite0694 (Talk) 16:02, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Support Support Sadads (talk) 16:16, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Support Support Apokrif (talk) 20:08, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Support Support--Akela (talk) 21:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Support Support Yes! Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:20, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Support Support Popcorndude (talk) 03:54, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Support Support and please note that this is something very different from what Flow is attempting to offer. Risker (talk) 04:36, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tools for fly-by-night-editors to analyze silent reverts

Background

I am a fly-by-night-editor: Most of my edits are to pages I visit only once. Occasionally I get feedback for my edits in the form of a overt revert, but not very often. If I were an optimist, I would pat myself on the back and assume that my work has been accepted. But I am a realist and I know that many of the edits I made have been silently reverted once I have left the scene, when another editor simply edited over my edit rather than revert it. This is my definition of a silent revert.

Silent reverts happen for two reasons I can think of:

  • The most common is probably done by another fly-by-nighter who parachutes into an page, knows nothing about its history and simply edits something that s/he believe needs fixing
  • There are also a few editors who revert silently deliberately on-the-sly. In my case these types are stalkers who for reasons they have never shared with me just do not like my edits. They know I do not watch pages I edit and take advantage of it.

Tool request

It would be nice to have a tool that one could use to analyze a sampling of articles one edited to easily spot silent reverts.

Sorry for submitting this half-baked tool request, but it looks like time is running out on this survey. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:34, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier discussion and endorsements

Votes

  1. Support Support. --Stryn (talk) 19:14, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 15:04, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support Popcorndude (talk) 03:55, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Watchlist priority options

Many veteran Wikipedians have watchlists that span thousands of articles, completely beyond the ability to effectively manage. If said Wikipedian can't edit for a certain period (say, a week), just going over the changes in the watchlist can take hours and become a chore that editors simply avoid, at the possible expense of missing vandalism and/or edits that they need to see.

There are external tools for creating and organizing watchlists in different ways, but I'd like to see many of those features built-in as part of MediaWiki. One important addition should be a tag for 'high-priority' articles, similar to how GMail has a tag for 'important' e-mail. While having multiple watchlists would support such functionality indirectly, it would be great to be able to see articles marked as 'important' inside the existing watchlist, and be able to filter them like one can now hide/show own edits, hide/show bot edits, etc.

—Ynhockey (talk) 20:49, 7 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier discussion and endorsements
  • Endorsed Endorsed as this is a collection of rather annoying shortcomings in core MediaWiki. All editors of all MediaWiki installations should benefit from this, so Oppose Oppose if it is implemented as an extension, gadget or any WMF specific means. MER-C (talk) 12:44, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed :JarrahTree (talk) 00:24, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed My watchlist has become a useless list with dozens entries each day, after 10 years. I want more customization, colors, etc. --Piotrus (talk) 04:59, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed Same the above. Along with customization on I/F, I'd like to have a sort function by selected namespaces. Currently we can search in one namespace with an associated one (main + talk etc,), but sometimes we have to search in multiple namespaces, like Project+Project talk+User talk etc. --Aphaia (talk) 05:09, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed This is indeed a much-needed feature. I've tried to achieve this by extending my CSS configuration. This is, however, quite cumbersome and also tricky as apostrophes and other characters cannot be used in CSS tag names. I would suggest to give users options to colorize watchlist entries, i.e. the operation that adds a page onto a watchlist should have the option to give it a specific color (for a fixed set of colors depending on the overall style). Color assignments should also be possible while viewing the watchlist. --AFBorchert (talk) 06:54, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed 4nn1l2 (talk) 09:13, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed--Liridon (talk) 13:56, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed --Yann (talk) 16:09, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed I would love to have " watch for a week/month/year" option. I also find current watchlists very hard to manage and had to in the past ask for help when my watchlist grew bigger than tools ability to display. --Jarekt (talk) 19:15, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed Kropotkine 113 (talk) 21:37, 10 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed Of course. IJBall (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed I also like the idea submitted by Jarekt (above) that would allow me to add something to my watchlist and optionally specify an expiration, at which point I'll automatically stop watching it (perhaps more useful with talk pages than mainspace articles, but still a useful function). As long as we are discussing the watchlist, it would be nice if there was a way to create a private note about pages on one's own watchlist, such as to-do items or a self-reminder as to why the item is on the watch list in the first place. It would also be useful if a user could specify a section, rather than an entire article, for a watchlist. This might be useful if I place a comment on a particular talk page, and want to be notified if someone replies below my comment, but I'm not concerned about other conversations on the same page. (Probably most useful on drama boards, Jimbo's talk page, project space, etc.)Etamni (talk) 07:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsed Endorsed I want to be able to flag certain items for a month at a time. --Timeshifter (talk) 17:43, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

  1. Support Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:25, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support MER-C (talk) 09:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support Samwalton9 (talk) 10:40, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support Lugnuts (talk) 12:11, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support cool suggestion! Alleycat80 (talk) 09:28, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support Ovedc (talk) 09:55, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:24, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support Apokrif (talk) 20:06, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support --Usien6 (talk) 21:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support There definitely needs to be a way to differentiate between pages on a watchlist, by priority, topic, or something similar to reduce the volume of edits an user needs to go through after an absence. -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 21:54, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:21, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]


Watchlist timed expiry

Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T100508

I would like to be able to set an expiry time for watchlist items, of say one week or one month. There are many pages that I do maintenance on or repair vandalism that I would like to watch for a brief period of time, but have no long term interest in. The UI I envisage would just have additional tick boxes: watch this page indefinitely, watch for one week; watch for one month. Derek Andrews (talk) 23:49, 8 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earlier discussion and endorsements

Votes

  1. Support Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Support Support MER-C (talk) 09:44, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Support Support Samwalton9 (talk) 10:41, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Support Support Lugnuts (talk) 12:12, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Support Support IJBall (talk) 14:00, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Support Support Tryptofish (talk) 18:08, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Support Support — Bilorv (talk) 19:38, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Support Support Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:04, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Support Support Graham11 (talk) 03:30, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Support Support--Gbeckmann (talk) 09:21, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Support Support--Shizhao (talk) 09:45, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Support Support--Syum90 (talk) 12:32, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Support Support --Arnd (talk) 14:58, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Support Support Wittylama (talk) 15:09, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Support Support --Continua Evoluzione (talk) 15:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Support Support · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 15:26, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Support Support Goombiis (talk) 16:38, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  18. Support Support --Isacdaavid (talk) 17:49, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Support Support--Kimdime (talk) 19:54, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Neutral Neutral Seems useful, but not necessarily a priority. This system would probably also require a method of notifying users when watched pages become un-watched, which seems like a lot of work for something users can already do manually with more control. -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 21:56, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Support Support Gap9551 (talk) 22:35, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Comment Comment Related, I'd like to be able to search my own user contribution list for articles that have been edited since my last edit, i.e., show only my latest edit for each page except those for which I'm still the last editor. That would make it quick and easy to see which of my edits may have been changed in the last few days. Gap9551 (talk) 22:44, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Support Support Helder 23:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Support Support Chaoborus (talk) 02:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  25. Support Support. Hand in hand with this, being able to remove pages from one's watchlist directly from the watchlist would be incredibly useful. Risker (talk) 04:39, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Support Support--Jarekt (talk) 05:06, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Support Support Litlok (talk) 08:42, 2 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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