It is reasonable to presume watchlists are important for all active Wikimedians on all projects, having a self-selected 'user sample space' of 87, seems small. I know the survey was mentioned on this email list and posted on some noticeboards, but it would have made sense to hold open the survey, and send around a couple more notices, until a few hundred people took part.[1] To put this in context, there are currently more than 75,000 "active" editors,[2] so a participation rate in a survey targeted at active system contributors of 0.1% is statistically poor. Though a small sample can highlight problems with the user experience, and even discover bugs, you would probably need to aim for 0.5% to 1% of the population to make statistically credible conclusions about what the editor community prefers, or to justify investment in non-critical system improvement. It is interesting to observe that if the sample were engineered to be less self-selected, then statistically it might be valid to draw conclusions from a relatively small sample. I note that in the survey feedback, the home projects of users is not reported. This is a pity as it is hard to judge if the survey was biased to English speakers/writers, possibly as a consequence of the languages of notices and emails posted. Links 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist 2. http://reportcard.wmflabs.org Fae On 23 May 2016 at 15:34, Bohdan Melnychuk <base-w(a)yandex.ru> wrote: faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

"Talkpage watcher" would do fine. Newyorkbrad/IBM On 5/26/16, David Goodman <dggenwp(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I don't guess this is a matter of whether it is technically possible, but rather if the community would like to allow such functionality (what would then stop a troll to selectively disable all admins to watch his/her talkpage?) Lodewijk 2016-05-27 6:31 GMT+02:00 James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>om>: