On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:22:39 +1000, David Gerard wrote:
Jakob (jakob.voss(a)s1999.tu-chemnitz.de) [040620
06:28]:
2. It's not controllable.
You cannot watch a category to get noticed on new articles or when
somebody removes an article from the category.
This could do with fixing. OTOH, it's becoming conventional for one's edit
summary to say "[[Category:xxx]]" when you add an article to category xxx.
Which of course shows up in your watchlist.
But only if the article was on your watchlist anyway.
If, say, you're interested in [[Category:Goth]], then your watchlist
won't notify you when a new article (that you weren't previously
watching) is added to that category, even if you're watching
[[Category:Goth]].
This is something I've wished for as well, and I hoped watching the
category would provide for that, but no.
It would be a good way to be notified of articles in the topics I'm
interested in, for example.
Cheers,
Philip