https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31313

--- Comment #8 from Erik Moeller <[email protected]> 2012-06-12 17:22:21 UTC 
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Yes, on closer inspection, I'm not seeing the need for even an additional
preference. The existing watchlist preference for watching created pages
already operates in this manner. It would be useful to update the message text
in core to clarify that it refers to files as well, not just pages.

I'm seeing now that this option is specifically disabled for Commons and
enabled everywhere else:

if( $wgDBname != 'commonswiki' ) {
    $wgDefaultUserOptions['watchcreations'] = 1;
}

http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.txt

So at some point someone seems to have decided that flooding the watchlist of
every user with every uploaded file would be too spammy. This request would
effectively accomplish the opposite. We should make sure there's consensus to
do so before we change it.

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