[Wikipedia-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Watchlist

Tue Oct 21 18:32:45 UTC 2003

On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 10:46 US/Pacific, K Forstner wrote:

> Time for the silly question(s). Wasn't the watchlist feature disabled 
> some
> time ago?

No. For people with very long watchlists the default time period shown 
on [[Special:Watchlist]] has been drastically reduced, that's all.

Also a note:
THERE WILL BE NO FEATURE BY WHICH ARBITRARY PEOPLE CAN VIEW ANYONE 
ELSE'S WATCHLIST WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. The idea is very unpopular, and 
for good reason.

Hypothetically we could make an opt-in 'public watchlist', but few 
people think this would be useful, and you can do more flexible things 
by creating pages of links.

More likely we might add a "N users are watching this page" to the page 
stats, which is not privacy-invasive but perhaps informative.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)