https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44922
Platonides <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #11 from Platonides <[email protected]> --- There's a big difference between the watchlist and a reading list, and it's that it emails you when an article changes. If you just want a list of items to read later, getting those emails would be most annoying. If you haven't read a page, you don't need to get notified when it changes. Granted, you can disable those email in your preferences, and in big projects such as enwiki, it's not allowed due to the volume of email that would be needed. But those are ab abuse of the feature to do something similar, not a valid use. Oh, and “We've always used a star” is incorrect. They were introduced in 2009 (r56924) into the vector skin (r51086), which is the only one which uses it. And there is in fact a switch to not use a star ($wgVectorUseIconWatch, introduced in r57030). Other icons such as an eye were also considered http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Opinion_Watch So IMHO we should resolve this bug explaining what *is* the watchlist: watching changes to a set of pages, and adding a reading list feature if desired. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
