Help talk:Watchlist/Archive 2

message: We need one place to develop MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using the Watchlist as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --mav 02:15, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plan to move this page to meta soon 

message: I may be a bit slow understanding how Wikipedia works, but what does "12314 total pages edited since cutoff" mean? (I'm talking about my basically empty "watchlist".) Edited by whom? Certainly not by me - I've only just discovered Wikipedia. Who or what was cut off (ouch)? Wikikiwi P.S. Hope this is the right place to ask this question.
:That's 12314 edits by anyone, within the last week or so, or whatever the cutoff time was when viewing your watchlist. (Cutoff time ---> Show last 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 hours 1 | 3 | 7 days all) Κσυπ Cyp     23:36, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi and welcome to wikipedia. hope you like out place. feel free to ask questions here whenever you are unsure about how something works. Optim 00:46, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  12314 total pages edited 

message: It sounds like encouraging people to add things to their watchlist might not be best, from a server perspective -- or has that changed with the new servers online?
I was curious though, because although I have less than 200 items on my list, I've caught two cases of page-blanking vandalism in the last week because the items appeared on my watchlist.
Would it be possible to do a one-time query to find out how many of our 200,000+ articles are NOT being watched?  That might give us an idea how many vandalisms are not likely to be caught by Watchlist-users.
Would it be helpful or harmful to use that query to provide a list of pages no one is watching?  Perhaps we could encourage interested users (especially those with small watchlists) to choose a handful of pages within their interest areas to watch for vandalism?
-- Catherine 22:27, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: This would be a neat feature. I also remember somebody floating the idea of displaying the number of users who watch a particular page at the bottom of that page. --mav 07:10, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  That would be dangerous, since vandals (spambots) would know which pages to vandalize. They would go for the ones that nobody looks at. Maybe there is some clever solution that would enable people who have made X number of (good/unreverted?) edits to a page to be able to know statistics on that particular page. This would encourage people to make good edits. MPS 21:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's NOT being watched? 

message: Over the last few days I've had non-stop difficulty having my watchlist served. Yes, it is big (>3000 items). I've tried to remove items, but even that function frequenly leads to "Database error" messages.
On IRC the thought was that Querybane terminated heavy queries. However, even requesting a watchlist for the last 2.4 hours (argument days=0.1) leads to errors. I'm wondering what other mechanism may be causing my problem. JFW | T@lk 15:50, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dysfunctional watchlist syndrome 

message: I noticed this odd count the last time I checked my watchlist. It shows 221 when I go to edit the list (presumably because it counts talk pages on that screen). Could I be getting this odd number because I have article-less talk pages watched? --Poiuyt Man talk 02:16, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  You have 110.5 pages on your watchlist 

message: Hmm, I have a page (Bible Student movement) that doesn't appear on my watchlist even though I edited it a couple hours ago. It appears when I list all items on watchlist. One possible cause is that I recently renamed it. I tried deleting the watch of the ancient name, as well as unwatching and re-watching it, but it's of no use :-P I'll try to reproduce it on Sandbox Watchlist Test Junk. I don't have a very long watchlist (100 pages) Flammifer 10:02, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page doesn't appear on watchlist. 

message: Can I find out how many people are watching certain page? - Darwinek 21:42, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would like to know alsoJohnRussell (talk) 15:46, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Recently, I've found strange pages in my watchlist - Things I didn't add, and no-one has my password (never told anyone, I'm sure I have no keylogger too), so no-one else could have added them.
Some seem to be similar to pages I already have. For example, I have "InuYasha" on my watchlist, and the non-existant page "InuWilly" had appeared on it. I also have "IRC" and "Wi-Fi" on my list, and the non-existant pages "Internet Relay Chat on WHEELS!" and "Wi-Fi on 28968 wheels" has appeared.
Is anyone else having this problem? Or can anyone tell my why this is happening?
My best guess is someone vandalizing a page to redirect to a weird page and the watchlist is adding the redirected page... -KevinJr42
:i believe when a vandal moves an article already on your watchlist, the new article name is added to your watchlist. then an admin moves the article back to its original name and deletes the new article name, but it is not removed from your watchlist. Kingturtle 04:26, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange pages in watchlist 

message: This page, Wikipedia:Watchlist help is in very bad shape, with the  note on top, and a note saying that it is deprecated, etc. In the same time, a huge number of pages link here, so this is a sorry state of affairs.
I suggest this page be redirected to Help:Watching pages which is the up-to-date version from Meta. Any comments? Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not recieve any objections, so I made this page redirect to Help:Watching pages. That page is not that well-written, but looks better than this one. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:09, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

text: er....let me sleep on it first, before i do anything about it. your decision is probably right. Kingturtle 05:56, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirecting this to [[Help:Watching pages]]