I'm a bit stumped, but may have missed a change somewhere on how watchlist tokens are supposed to be called using the API.

I'm logged in and get http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&intoken=watch&titles=Main%20Page&format=xml but it returns the error "Action 'watch' is not allowed for the current user" and fails to pass me a watch token. I have also tried this as a post rather than a get, but with the identical result.

Was there some security change that http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Watch does not reflect?

I'm not doing anything sneaky, I would just like a sensible way of trimming down my uneditable 90,000 pages long watchlist on Commons.

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