[WikiEN-l] Watchlist

Sat Aug 9 08:49:39 UTC 2003

Erik Moeller wrote:

>Ray-
>
>>>Alas, some of these wretched souls have ended up with rather large
>>>watchlists due to my "Watch articles by default" feature, so the 1 hour
>>>cutoff on large watchlists threatens their salvation.
>>>
>>I often wondered about the wisdom of that feature.
>>
>
>We could add an "Ignore watch request  
>if edit is minor" option that is evaluated post-save, but that may be too  
>confusing and would probably only end up being used by 4 people total, who  
>activated it by accident and then leave a question on the Pump about  
>mysterious watchlist behavior.
>
>I intend to add an additional option that allows you to only watch newly  
>created articles by default. Expiring watchlist entries after a certain  
>default period (unless you make an edit in that period) may also help (but  
>also has some screwup potential).
>
I would still prefer eliminating the "Watch articles by default" feature 
altogether.  

I don't like the idea of automatically expiring watchlist item.  The 
oldest one on my 115 item watchlist (other than talk pages) is from 
February 11.  My list includes a number of things that I would like to 
get back to if I ever have the time away from the mailing lists :-)

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