I have always been willing to share my watchlist, even publicly, and I
think it should be provided as an option. I can see two reasons people
might not want to: not to show what all of their interests are, and
not to show who on Wikipedia they may be tracking. As for me, I do
such a variety (in both) and for multiple reasons, that I see no
reason not to share it & I think that many of the more active users
might think similarly.
However, it has now grown so large that I almost never look at it.
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
Watchlist behavior is complex confidential behavior.
It is probably
impossible to obtain a representative sample. What could be done is
investigate patterns of watchlist, and article maintenance, behavior.
Fred
James Howison wrote:
Currently my plan is to assume that anyone who
has edited an article in
the past 6 months has it on their watchlist. Obviously a very corse
assumption.
I don't think that most people add most articles they edit to their
watchlist. I don't (my watchlist has about 3k and I've edited ~30k
distinct articles, IIRC).
I'd assume that people who watchlist the article are, usually:
* their creator
* editors who contributed to it extensively
* editors who discussed it on talk
* editors who have made 1+ revert on it
That said, I'll stress again that neither of those is certain.
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