https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39510
--- Comment #11 from Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> --- Watchlists stored and managed like large text files are just a bad solution. A better data model where the list will just be indexed pointers linking a user account and an article, in such a way that it can be searched and edited within subselections with the integration of a search feature, will be more useful. We should be able for example to query the list of articles we watch that are linked to or from some page or category and we should be able, when searching in articles in Wikipedia, to see immediately in the found results those pages that we have contributed in the past, without having to watch or unwatch them. For this we already have the history list for every page. This history already links the user, the page, the date of edit and its version number. It could as well contain a simple flag for watched items. So instead of watching pags, we would watch a list of the last version we have edited in the past. And we should be immediately offered a way to look compare versions of a page since out last edit on it, using the existing diff tool. So integrate these watch lists within the history list of pages, and forget the large watch list themselves. We should also be allowed to query watched pages by the time of their edit or last time we clicked on the "watch" button. We should have an interface showing a calendar of our own activities. -- 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 Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
