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

Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> 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 one (although if it's in core, it probably doesn't need to use a hook).  I
agree with Steven, there's no reason to prevent people from unwatching them.

> You'd also need a maintenance script to update existing users.

I also agree I'm not sure this is both worth it and a good idea.  I certainly
wouldn't want it to run on accounts that have been editing for years (by now,
they know what a watchlist is, and could certainly have watched their user page
if they wanted to).  It might be worth doing on recent accounts.

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

All MW, in my opinion.  There's nothing WMF- or Wikipedia- specific about this
use case.  We could gate it with Yet Another wg, but if so I think it should be
defaulted to true in core.

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