I read a complaint on the German mailing list about the watchlist search
giving only changes in the last hour. And I think it's indeed a bad thing
on the smaller Wikipedias.
Could this 'shortened watchlist time' for people with many watchlist entries
perhaps be made variable through the Wikipedias?
Using the limit that in the checked period there should be less than 250 edits
on average, I get to the following division, using
http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/Statistics/EN/TablesDatabaseEdi…
1 hour (75k-150k edits per month): en:
2 hours (25k-75k): de:
6 hours (12k-25k): fr:, nl:
12 hours (6k-12k): meta, pl:, sv:, ja:
1 day (2k-6k): eo:, es:, zh:
3 days (1k-2k): -
7 days: (<1k): cs:, ru:, other languages
Of course, it would be good to first check how many people are affected by
this, that is, how many people have an overly large watchlist on a Wikipedia
other than en:. If that are only 2 or 3 people, I guess our reaction should
be "why bother?"
Andre Engels