Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-27 Thread Lodewijk
Yeah, I don't guess this is a matter of whether it is technically possible, but rather if the community would like to allow such functionality (what would then stop a troll to selectively disable all admins to watch his/her talkpage?) Lodewijk 2016-05-27 6:31 GMT+02:00 James Heilman : > Talk pag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-26 Thread James Heilman
Talk pages are for communication. If people were unable to watch these pages they would become less useful. J On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Newyorkbrad wrote: > "Talkpage watcher" would do fine. > > Newyorkbrad/IBM > > On 5/26/16, David Goodman wrote: > > talk-page stalker is not necessari

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-26 Thread Newyorkbrad
"Talkpage watcher" would do fine. Newyorkbrad/IBM On 5/26/16, David Goodman wrote: > talk-page stalker is not necessarily an unfriendly term. It's meant as an > explanation for why the person saw the question, and posted there. But > perhaps we could find a better term for this, as stalker does

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-26 Thread David Goodman
talk-page stalker is not necessarily an unfriendly term. It's meant as an explanation for why the person saw the question, and posted there. But perhaps we could find a better term for this, as stalker does have unfortunate connotations. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Trillium Corsage wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-25 Thread Trillium Corsage
My English Wikipedia talkpage is watchlisted by a surprising number of users that I have no cooperative or friendly editing relationship with. Some of them refer to themselves as "talkpage stalkers." Might it be possible for a user to prohibit such persons from watchlisting him or her? If it's n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-23 Thread Johan Jönsson
Base: > How could one participate in the survey? I've just scrolled through past > issues of Tech News and did not find any mention of the survey, nor I > remember it mentioned in any other place. Was there some way to find about it > besides from this list? Which readers are clearly not the mo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-23 Thread
It is reasonable to presume watchlists are important for all active Wikimedians on all projects, having a self-selected 'user sample space' of 87, seems small. I know the survey was mentioned on this email list and posted on some noticeboards, but it would have made sense to hold open the survey, a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-23 Thread Bohdan Melnychuk
Hi! How could one participate in the survey? I've just scrolled through past issues of Tech News and did not find any mention of the survey, nor I remember it mentioned in any other place. Was there some way to find about it besides from this list? Which readers are clearly not the most Wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-20 Thread Johan Jönsson
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn wrote: > Hi everyone, > > WMF's Community Tech team is starting to work on a Cross-wiki watchlist, > one of the top 10 wishes in the Community Wishlist Survey that we conducted > at the end of last year. [1] > > We're running a survey on how people use t