Lars Aronsson wrote:

==Watch a category of articles== 2010 is election year in Sweden, so I want to keep an eye on all articles in category:Swedish politicians, in recursive levels.

I now do this on a weekly basis, using CatScan, http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php

I set wiki = sv.wikipedia.org search in category = svenska politiker with depth = 7 for changes in last 168 hours (= 7 x 24 = one week) save as CSV format

I then filter the output using the UNIX command line awk '$1==0 {print $2}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr

to get a listing of which articles got the most edits.

It would be nice to intersect this search with category:Living people, so dead politicians are filtered out.

Are there already any smarter tools to do this?

Watching articles in a given category wouldn't be too hard. OTOH, recursion and intersection have the problems that have been discussed many times.

==Watch a local community== For a local history project, I want to involve users close to me. These are found in category:Users in (my home town). From that category I can view "related changes", but that only covers changes to their user pages. I want to see contributions made by this group of users. Are there any tools for this?

If contributions to sv.wikipedia and Wikimedia commons could be combined in one list, that would be all the better.

Viewing contributions made by a group (with the option of importing from a category) look appropiate for a TS tool.