From: Thomas Gries <mail(a)tgries.de>
Thomas,
I see that you added the number of people watching a page to the information on the
watchlist page. On en, at least, this would be a security problem.
It would be interesting to be able to find unwatched pages to adopt, but it would make
vandalism more durable. I can envision some of the more persitent vandals and vandabots
only tampering with unwatched pages, in order to have a more lasting effect. They would
still show up in recent changes, but it is much easier to slip past RC patrol than to
evade the people who are watching a given page.
Is there any plan to implement this in any of the Wikipedias? Or is this targeted at third
party MedaWiki installations? I see your posts on here often. You seem to have done a good
job on coding, but I have heard no word on implementation.
Ben