https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44922

--- Comment #6 from Munaf Assaf <[email protected]> ---
> Take a step back. Who is a watchlist for? Since it was launched, a watchlist
> has always been for editors. It is not a reader feature, and has never been
> designed that way. The point of it is to help editors see changes to the
> subset of pages they care about, and review those changes. 

I know that it's an editor feature and I know how it's intended to be used.
What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter to a new user. It has a star
(favorites/bookmarks) icon, and it saves pages. That's it's function as far as
an onlooker is concerned. 

New users won't know and won't care what a feature is *intended* for. 

> But the whole idea of trying to cram two activities -- saving a reading
> list and watching changes to articles -- is what I'm rejecting. You shouldn't
> be trying to do that, because you're going to end up with a muddled user
> experience that works well for neither readers nor editors.

Consider the alternative, then. Two interfaces for saving a list of pages. How
would you present the differences between them in order to illustrate their
purpose and intended use on a single glance? Can you think of a way to do that
that doesn't introduce greater confusion?

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