mav wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't clear. The white list would be of
*users* not articles. Sharing
your white list would be an option that could be de-selected, yes.
Yes, but by having someone on your whitelist, you could see what they
had looked at.
If I was seriously looking for vandalism in recent changes, I might
not mind those pages being grayed out to people who have me on their
whitelist, but other times I might look at a page without really
bothering to check it properly. At those times, I don't want to be
grayed out as I don't want to take responsibility for looking at an
article which I haven't really made much of an attempt to check. The
person being watched should be able to turn the feature on and off as
they like.
Also, sometimes people might want to be reading Wikipedia but not be
visible. They might not want people to know they are around and
looking at recent changes. The whitelist could be used to tell exactly
when someone is online, which could be rather annoying if you are
trying to avoid that person who has you as the only person on their
whitelist.
Angela.