https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49719

MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> 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. :)

To implement this, I suppose there are two ways to do it, depending on whether
you want this to be unconditional.

The first way would be hacking this into Special:Watchlist (around where it
retrieves a user's watched pages, you'd just unconditionally add these two
pages to look up).

The second way would be to hook into the new account creation process and
automatically create these rows in the watchlist table for each new user. This
method allows users to opt out of watching their own pages. You'd also need a
maintenance script to update existing users.

Broadly, I think this feature request is fine (I think it makes sense to
auto-watch your own user/user talk page), but there seem to be two open
questions:

Should watching your own user/user talk pages be non-optional (i.e., do we want
to retain the ability to unwatch your own user/user talk page)?

Should this feature apply to all MediaWiki wikis or just Wikimedia wikis?

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