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Is it possible to make a special page with a list of articles that will behave like the watchlist does? For example, if I wanted to watch perhaps 200 pages related to a given topic, but not clutter up my primary watchlist to make it unreadable? How does everyone else do this? F.F.McGurk 21:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there a limit to the number of pages you can have on your watchlist? -- Arriva 436 17:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
A bit of a silly problem... I go to my Watchlist page and none of the links go directly to the page that the links relate to, only "user", etc. What is going wrong? Thanks in advance. Asteroceras 16:14, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Then you need hAtom - vote to add hAtom to MediaWiki's article history. Andy Mabbett 19:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to add every page in a categry to your watchlist? I've tried to search, but I can't find any mention of it? Basically what I want to do is watch every page that is part of WP:Stage - the WP I contribute to. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bryson430 ( talk • contribs) 16:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC).
Is it fine to make the "green text" thing a subtopic of the CSS section in this article? I just think it'd be easier, seeing as you can only change the green text in CSS which doesn't seem to be a very intuitive thing to do for newcomers like me. Maybe putting it in a different article and linking there might work better. What do you think? Kennard2 09:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
If you are watching a page, it's a very good idea to watch it properly - that is to check every single edit to ensure no vandalism, spam or disinformation slips through the cracks. Too often I see pages where some form of mischief has gone unnoticed for up to a year. To remedy this, we need to have people watching articles, ideally such that every single article is maintained by someone. However, when watching a number of articles, or those with high traffic, it's often easy to forget where you last checked. A bookmarking feature incorporated into the watchlist page could help make this easier - if you could mark the diff that you last checked, you could proceed from there next time and know that you have missed nothing. Thoughts? Richard001 21:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
This topic has apparently been discussed several times on wikipedia:bugzilla [1]. There was reluctance to change the watchlist user interface, so nothing happened. But be sure to go to your preferences page, watchlist tab, and check the first box ("Expand watchlist to show all applicable changes"). This at least lets you see the full history of an article's updates each day, not just the last update. (I only just noticed this option <blush/>; I had assumed that any watchlist options would be at the 'edit your complete watchlist' link, or that at least they'd be mentioned there.) Trevor Hanson 03:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi all.
When I looked at my Watchlist earlier (my very short watchlist), I noticed that the only change of the article World of Warcraft was visible for the 23rd of march (today)... and this was a revert of vandalisation which happened earlier today. I then checked the article and saw that there was a lot more edits today, and many that weren't listed. Maybe I've missed a setting or something, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Could someone give me some help here? Many thanks in advance! Torte... of Doom! 19:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but if anyone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it. Recently, every Wikipedia article I view is automatically added to my Watchlist even though I don't click the watch button. I've looked over my preferences, but see no option to toggle this "feature" on and off. As I said, this only started happening recently, like in the past three weeks. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening? Jtrost ( T | C | #) 23:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, the display and edit complete list has broken down for me. For about the last week, I've been unable to draw up this list. All that happens is a blank page will load after a moment or two. Recently I did go over 10k pages on my watchlist, which I was trying to cut back on when I found the problem. Anyone got any ideas, or solutions? Jo e I 03:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to include an option hiding all edits below a certain size? BillMasen 19:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
From a maintenance/anti-vandalism point of view, it would be helpful to know how many people, if any, are watching a given article. Is there any way to ascertain this information? I can find nothing on the article page. If there isn't, I think it should quickly be added as a feature so that editors can locate unwatched articles to help maintain the quality of the encyclopedia, as unwatched articles have little defense against drive-by vandalism. Richard001 11:31, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to put an "Unwatch" button directly on "My Watchlist", as on the full editable list, so that it can be removed with a single tick? That would help to shorten the list in a quicker and more convenient way. -- Matthead discuß! O 17:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
If I want to watch for a reply at a very busy talk page like the village pump, is there any way I can watch only the section my question is in? Would it be technically possible, and if so practical and useful to have a feature like this? Richard001 00:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me or does the text on the help page imply that if a page doesn't exist, the choice to watch a non-existant page must be made purposefully? I.E., it implies that the default watching of the talk page that accompanies an article does not function if the talk page is not yet in existence when the "watching" occurs. Miss Mondegreen talk 07:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
I cannot see my watchlist recent changes. Is there a bug? Tkjazzer 22:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Does MediaWiki track the info it'd need to tell when any given page was added to the watchlist of any given user? If not, would the MediaWiki devs be likely to grant a second list, a Readlist, that just keeps internal bookmarks or something of the sort, if I were to file a bug report? MrZaius talk 14:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Am I nuts, or is the Watchlist capped at 250 edits? I've gotten to the point where I'm monitoring enough pages that I can't see even a full 24 hours of edits, and I'd kind of like a workaround, if one is available. MrZaius talk 01:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Help:Watching pages#Deletion of pages currently claims " http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Watchlist&magic=yes shows all watched non-talk pages, including the deleted ones." Is this really true? It does not appear to work right now for my watchlist and the article ttylinux ( deleted 13:48, 27 May 2007 after I had tagged it with Template:db-copyvio). — Tobias Bergemann 16:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
(Addendum: Deleted pages still appear when I am directly editing my watchlist. — Tobias Bergemann 16:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC))
Hi all. In case any of you haven't noticed it, the "all" link on the watchlist only returns seven days of results all of a sudden instead of the thirty days it used to. There have been some assertions of functionality regarding the change. There's a discussion at the Village Pump here and a bug report has been filed 10349. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 00:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey... to whoever made the new "watchlist" toggle... I raise my Goblet of Rock to You! -- Knulclunk 00:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
What does this mean, exactly? Eaglizard 22:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
For some reason my watchlist isn't registering all changes to the pages I'm watching. For the last few days I've found changes on the watchlist as normal, but when I click on the page that the notification is for I notice that there has actually been more than one edit/editor since the last time I was notified. I like to stop vandalism, syntactical/grammatical and other errors sooner rather than later, and I'm a little surprised that the function is "missing" stuff. Any ideas? ChrisStansfield Contribs 18:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Every page I edit automatically appears on my watchlist. Before you reply....yes I have unchecked the option in my preferences, if need be I can provide a screencap. This has been frustrating me for weeks now. Just wondered whether this is a known problem. I used Firefox if that helps. Please reply via my talk page. Thanks.
Ryan(
talk/
contribs)
23:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody know how come some articles which I have never added or edited become appended to my watchlist? Blueshirts 22:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Whenever I click on my watchlist I get this message:
Wikipedia has a problem
Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
(Can't contact the database server: Unknown error ())
Does anyone know what the problem is? Is anyone else having this problem? Wikidudeman (talk) 16:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
An explanation? Wikidudeman (talk) 17:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
The help page has diverged significantly from the master copy at m:Help:Watching pages, despite the statement at the top of the page: This is a copy of the master help page at Meta. Do not edit this copy.
I don't have any problem with ignoring Meta, but if in fact that is the policy, it would be good to make it clear. Your username goes here 10:31, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
On the watchlist what does a red minus two in parentheses signify?... (-2) What does a green plus ten in parentheses signify?... (+10) There should be a key for it on the watchlist ! the zak 17:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to place a code in the MediaWiki that placed an "unwatch" link next to every page that came up on the watchlist? That would be most convenient. ScienceApologist ( talk) 19:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
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Is it possible to make a special page with a list of articles that will behave like the watchlist does? For example, if I wanted to watch perhaps 200 pages related to a given topic, but not clutter up my primary watchlist to make it unreadable? How does everyone else do this? F.F.McGurk 21:48, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there a limit to the number of pages you can have on your watchlist? -- Arriva 436 17:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
A bit of a silly problem... I go to my Watchlist page and none of the links go directly to the page that the links relate to, only "user", etc. What is going wrong? Thanks in advance. Asteroceras 16:14, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Then you need hAtom - vote to add hAtom to MediaWiki's article history. Andy Mabbett 19:59, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there any way to add every page in a categry to your watchlist? I've tried to search, but I can't find any mention of it? Basically what I want to do is watch every page that is part of WP:Stage - the WP I contribute to. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bryson430 ( talk • contribs) 16:55, 9 March 2007 (UTC).
Is it fine to make the "green text" thing a subtopic of the CSS section in this article? I just think it'd be easier, seeing as you can only change the green text in CSS which doesn't seem to be a very intuitive thing to do for newcomers like me. Maybe putting it in a different article and linking there might work better. What do you think? Kennard2 09:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
If you are watching a page, it's a very good idea to watch it properly - that is to check every single edit to ensure no vandalism, spam or disinformation slips through the cracks. Too often I see pages where some form of mischief has gone unnoticed for up to a year. To remedy this, we need to have people watching articles, ideally such that every single article is maintained by someone. However, when watching a number of articles, or those with high traffic, it's often easy to forget where you last checked. A bookmarking feature incorporated into the watchlist page could help make this easier - if you could mark the diff that you last checked, you could proceed from there next time and know that you have missed nothing. Thoughts? Richard001 21:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
This topic has apparently been discussed several times on wikipedia:bugzilla [1]. There was reluctance to change the watchlist user interface, so nothing happened. But be sure to go to your preferences page, watchlist tab, and check the first box ("Expand watchlist to show all applicable changes"). This at least lets you see the full history of an article's updates each day, not just the last update. (I only just noticed this option <blush/>; I had assumed that any watchlist options would be at the 'edit your complete watchlist' link, or that at least they'd be mentioned there.) Trevor Hanson 03:26, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi all.
When I looked at my Watchlist earlier (my very short watchlist), I noticed that the only change of the article World of Warcraft was visible for the 23rd of march (today)... and this was a revert of vandalisation which happened earlier today. I then checked the article and saw that there was a lot more edits today, and many that weren't listed. Maybe I've missed a setting or something, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Could someone give me some help here? Many thanks in advance! Torte... of Doom! 19:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this question, but if anyone could help me I'd greatly appreciate it. Recently, every Wikipedia article I view is automatically added to my Watchlist even though I don't click the watch button. I've looked over my preferences, but see no option to toggle this "feature" on and off. As I said, this only started happening recently, like in the past three weeks. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening? Jtrost ( T | C | #) 23:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, the display and edit complete list has broken down for me. For about the last week, I've been unable to draw up this list. All that happens is a blank page will load after a moment or two. Recently I did go over 10k pages on my watchlist, which I was trying to cut back on when I found the problem. Anyone got any ideas, or solutions? Jo e I 03:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to include an option hiding all edits below a certain size? BillMasen 19:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
From a maintenance/anti-vandalism point of view, it would be helpful to know how many people, if any, are watching a given article. Is there any way to ascertain this information? I can find nothing on the article page. If there isn't, I think it should quickly be added as a feature so that editors can locate unwatched articles to help maintain the quality of the encyclopedia, as unwatched articles have little defense against drive-by vandalism. Richard001 11:31, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to put an "Unwatch" button directly on "My Watchlist", as on the full editable list, so that it can be removed with a single tick? That would help to shorten the list in a quicker and more convenient way. -- Matthead discuß! O 17:26, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
If I want to watch for a reply at a very busy talk page like the village pump, is there any way I can watch only the section my question is in? Would it be technically possible, and if so practical and useful to have a feature like this? Richard001 00:44, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me or does the text on the help page imply that if a page doesn't exist, the choice to watch a non-existant page must be made purposefully? I.E., it implies that the default watching of the talk page that accompanies an article does not function if the talk page is not yet in existence when the "watching" occurs. Miss Mondegreen talk 07:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
I cannot see my watchlist recent changes. Is there a bug? Tkjazzer 22:00, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Does MediaWiki track the info it'd need to tell when any given page was added to the watchlist of any given user? If not, would the MediaWiki devs be likely to grant a second list, a Readlist, that just keeps internal bookmarks or something of the sort, if I were to file a bug report? MrZaius talk 14:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Am I nuts, or is the Watchlist capped at 250 edits? I've gotten to the point where I'm monitoring enough pages that I can't see even a full 24 hours of edits, and I'd kind of like a workaround, if one is available. MrZaius talk 01:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Help:Watching pages#Deletion of pages currently claims " http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Watchlist&magic=yes shows all watched non-talk pages, including the deleted ones." Is this really true? It does not appear to work right now for my watchlist and the article ttylinux ( deleted 13:48, 27 May 2007 after I had tagged it with Template:db-copyvio). — Tobias Bergemann 16:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
(Addendum: Deleted pages still appear when I am directly editing my watchlist. — Tobias Bergemann 16:18, 27 May 2007 (UTC))
Hi all. In case any of you haven't noticed it, the "all" link on the watchlist only returns seven days of results all of a sudden instead of the thirty days it used to. There have been some assertions of functionality regarding the change. There's a discussion at the Village Pump here and a bug report has been filed 10349. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 00:10, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Hey... to whoever made the new "watchlist" toggle... I raise my Goblet of Rock to You! -- Knulclunk 00:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
What does this mean, exactly? Eaglizard 22:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
For some reason my watchlist isn't registering all changes to the pages I'm watching. For the last few days I've found changes on the watchlist as normal, but when I click on the page that the notification is for I notice that there has actually been more than one edit/editor since the last time I was notified. I like to stop vandalism, syntactical/grammatical and other errors sooner rather than later, and I'm a little surprised that the function is "missing" stuff. Any ideas? ChrisStansfield Contribs 18:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Every page I edit automatically appears on my watchlist. Before you reply....yes I have unchecked the option in my preferences, if need be I can provide a screencap. This has been frustrating me for weeks now. Just wondered whether this is a known problem. I used Firefox if that helps. Please reply via my talk page. Thanks.
Ryan(
talk/
contribs)
23:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Does anybody know how come some articles which I have never added or edited become appended to my watchlist? Blueshirts 22:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Whenever I click on my watchlist I get this message:
Wikipedia has a problem
Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
(Can't contact the database server: Unknown error ())
Does anyone know what the problem is? Is anyone else having this problem? Wikidudeman (talk) 16:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
An explanation? Wikidudeman (talk) 17:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
The help page has diverged significantly from the master copy at m:Help:Watching pages, despite the statement at the top of the page: This is a copy of the master help page at Meta. Do not edit this copy.
I don't have any problem with ignoring Meta, but if in fact that is the policy, it would be good to make it clear. Your username goes here 10:31, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
On the watchlist what does a red minus two in parentheses signify?... (-2) What does a green plus ten in parentheses signify?... (+10) There should be a key for it on the watchlist ! the zak 17:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Would it be possible to place a code in the MediaWiki that placed an "unwatch" link next to every page that came up on the watchlist? That would be most convenient. ScienceApologist ( talk) 19:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
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