https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49719
--- Comment #2 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > The vast majority of users are interested in what edits are made by others > > to > > their user page and user talk page. They should be watching both by default, > > which for some reason is not the case now. > > Hmmm. I don't think this can simply be enabled on Wikimedia wikis. Does this > functionality exist in MediaWiki currently? If so, is there some sample code > you can provide to accomplish this? If not, this bug should be switched to a > MediaWiki bug to implement this functionality. > > In MediaWiki, watching a subject-space page unconditionally watches the talk > page and watching a talk page unconditionally watches the subject-space > page). > They're linked. New users don't watch either page by default, but the root > user > talk page is special in that most edits to it will trigger a notification > (the > new messages bar). This is distinct from the watchlist (the new messages bar > is > tracked by the user_newtalk database table). As far as I know, there's no way > to set a user to automatically watch his or her user/user talk pages, though > I > may be mistaken. I didn't know if there was an easy way to configure this either, but I thought I'd ask first. If we need to change this to a feature request, be bold. :) Others suggested to me that we do this on account creation, which works too maybe. -- 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
