[WikiEN-l] Watchlist

Sat Aug 9 02:54:00 UTC 2003

james-

>> I've set the default cutoff to one hour

> That is driving me MAD!!! WHY??? The only reason I use my watchlist is when
> I log on after being off for 10 of 15 hours to see what pages I am
> interested in have been worked on in my absence by others. Instead I end up
> being told what was worked on in the last hour, which I can see from the
> blooming Recent Changes anyway! I end up having to do a second watchlist
> search having reset the perameters. An hour-long search is worse than
> useless.

I agree, the 1 hour default is kind of silly. We really need to find a  
solution that allows watching thousands of articles without delay. Since  
Brion is an avid watchlist user himself I'm sure he'll optimize it some  
more, but if not, I'll try to see what I can do.

Regards,

Erik