Watchlist wishlist
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Watchlist wishlist
Objective and rationale
[edit]- To write: What are watchlists meant to achieve? How are they meant to be used? How does this vary by type of user?
Top-level plan
[edit]- To write: What are the major ways in which the nature of watchlists should shift and change, and why (with reference to the above)?
Specific changes
[edit]- To write: For each proposed change, does it have a brief description, link to a page or bug describing how it would work, a quick evaluation of their technical complexity and dependencies, and a justification for its relative priority (given the top-level plan)?
Suggestions
[edit]Overview
[edit]The main requests identified so far are
- cross-wiki watchlists (supporting interwiki collaboration)
- public or shared watchlists (supporting intrawiki collaboration)
- improved management of the watchlist (adding, removing, searching, processing - supporting efficiency of watchlist system)
- including grouping or tagging items
- including adding items temporarily (with temporarily watched items automatically removed after specific time or event)
- including adding/removing categories (handling of additions/removals from category, not just edits to category page)
- including automatically adding/removing subpages of a watched page
- including watching a user's contributions
- including annotating individual watchlist items
Bug list
[edit]List of major watchlist-related feature requests
- Ability to watch lists of pages, e.g. all sub-pages of a page
- Improve selection of items on [[Special:Watchlist/edit]] (invert selection of/(un)select all/select redirects/select inexistent pages)
- On Special:Watchlist, allow to hide non-bolded ("unread") entries
- Wildcard or Regex support for Watchlists
- Cross-wiki watchlists
- Special:Watchlist should show other languages (provide quick links to Watchlist on other projects)
- Common watchlists (shared/public)
- clearing one's watchlist CLOSED, RESOLVED
- Special:Watchlist enhancement - allow return of removed items to list
- Watchlist doesn't show earlier normal edits when hiding bot edits, own edits or minor edits
- Watch edits which add or remove pages from a category
- Watch pages for a few days only (add an expiry time)
- Group similar pages in watchlist (aka multiple watchlists)
- Watchlist "Grouping"
- Related notes at Extension:WatchGroup#Types of WatchGroups
- Add comments field to watchlist items
- Auto-refresh on watchlist
- Obtain a list of edits to watched pages since last visit
- Distinguish links to redirect pages on Special:Watchlist CLOSED, DECLINED
- Special:Watchlist should link to nonredirected pages CLOSED, RESOLVED
- Ability to watch section levels of pages
- Remind me of this article in X days
- Provide a 'user-watchlist' that lists all recent contributions of a set of users -(Extension:UsersWatchlist)
- Add a direct unwatch link to entries on Special:Watchlist
- Set "Add pages I edit to my watchlist" and "Add pages I create to my watchlist" to true by default on Wikimedia wikis (only for new users)
- Set "E-mail me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" (enotifwatchlistpages) to true by default for new users
See also
[edit]- Crosswatch, a cross-wiki watchlist. Documentation. Talk:Crosswatch. Phabricator task map.
- en:Wikipedia:Integrated, interwiki, global watchlists
- en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_63#Trans-wiki_collaboration
- UI improvement ideas for watchlist navigation
- http://mw-watchlist.tumblr.com/ (archive.org) — Blog of Aaron Pramana, who worked on watchlist improvements as part of GSoC 2012
- strategy:Proposal:Global watchlists
- strategy:Proposal:Common watchlists
- Interwiki integration
- w:Wikipedia:Perennial proposals#Watchlist changes