Talk pages are for communication. If people were unable to watch these pages they would become less useful.
J On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkb...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Talkpage watcher" would do fine. > > Newyorkbrad/IBM > > On 5/26/16, David Goodman <dgge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > talk-page stalker is not necessarily an unfriendly term. It's meant as an > > explanation for why the person saw the question, and posted there. But > > perhaps we could find a better term for this, as stalker does have > > unfortunate connotations. > > > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Trillium Corsage < > trillium2...@yandex.com> > > wrote: > > > >> My English Wikipedia talkpage is watchlisted by a surprising number of > >> users that I have no cooperative or friendly editing relationship with. > >> Some of them refer to themselves as "talkpage stalkers." Might it be > >> possible for a user to prohibit such persons from watchlisting him or > her? > >> If it's not possible to selectively prohibit, how about an on/off > switch, > >> i.e. *no-one* may watchlist an editor's individual talkpage. > >> > >> Trillium Corsage > >> > >> 21.05.2016, 02:20, "Johan Jönsson" <email clipped>: > >> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> >> Hi everyone, > >> >> > >> >> WMF's Community Tech team is starting to work on a Cross-wiki > >> watchlist, > >> >> one of the top 10 wishes in the Community Wishlist Survey that we > >> conducted > >> >> at the end of last year. [1] > >> >> > >> >> We're running a survey on how people use their watchlists, to help > >> inform > >> >> our work. > >> > > >> > Hi everyone, > >> > > >> > A couple of months ago, the Community Tech team ran a survey to gather > >> > information on how Wikimedians use their watchlists. You can see the > >> > results here: > >> > > >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Survey_results > >> > > >> > If you're interested, there are also some very early and rough > >> > wireframes available on the project page: > >> > > >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Current_work.2C_for_discussion > >> > > >> > //Johan Jönsson > >> > -- > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > , > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Goodman > > > > DGG at the enWP > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
