https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21223
--- Comment #5 from Cenarium <[email protected]> 2009-10-24 15:19:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > The principle remains the same: the ability to maintain separate watchlists > (with varying degrees of access). Re-suggest DUPING. > The principle is fundamentally different, bug 7467 and bug 5875 are about personal/user watchlists, splitting them or changing their visibility, while this bug is about developing common watchlists (CW), hosted for example at Special:CommonWatchlists/1, Special:CommonWatchlists/2, ... editable by users with CW editor permissions, that can be created and marked as deleted by CW admins, etc (see http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Common_watchlists). A user can subscribe to a particular CW so that all pages on the CW appear directly on their user watchlist (similarly to PovWatch). It requires a whole new extension or heavy upgrade of PovWatch. (In reply to comment #4) > why don't you just use relatedchanges feature? > It's been tried, some wikiprojects have their watchlists, and some pages listing articles like [[Template:Popular articles]] propose this functionality, but it's not much used, and often the pages end up no longer updated and people cease to use them; because it's very impractical to use and limited: you need to access the relatedchanges for the page, and of course there is no dynamic way to add to your watchlist all pages linked on a given page. It's also cumbersome to update, you need to sort them, link the talk pages too, while a common watchlist editor similar to the raw watchlist editor would be simple to use and sort automatically. So common watchlists could be deployed widely, and linked from [[Special:Watchlist]] in some way. In fact it's a heavy enhancement of PovWatch, and you can see support for it being enabled at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 52#PovWatch]] - bug 20523. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
