https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39510
--- Comment #10 from Dennis C. During <[email protected]> --- Simply wiping out the list is not good enough. Nor are most conceivable ways of bulk-reducing (eg, by namespace, by limiting to ASCII character). If the normal edit processes don't work for large watchlists, then some kind of offline editing and reloading of the watchlist would be required. The effective limit on watchlist size at English Wiktionary is about 20K entries. We have one contributor with 150K, another with 50K items and others with counts exceeding 20K. With 3.5M entries we really need to have large watchlists to avoid overloading our patrolers or letting many low-quality changes through. It is not realistic to have users watch or unwatch each page they contribute to individually. Users either watch every page they edit by default or virtually no page they edit. As the list is presented for editing is alphabetical within each namespace, reviewing it manually as it approaches 20K items means reviewing not just recent additions (since the last review), but the whole list. Going through one's recent contributions to unwatch items one at a time is also quite slow. -- 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
