Hi Jan, I believe that WMF Community Tech is working toward unifying watchlists across wikis. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist I like the idea of time-limited watchlist items. You might propose that on Phabricator. Regarding research (as opposed to enginerring), I am unaware of current research projects but I suggest that you check the archives of the Research Newsletter. Dario or others may have more information. Pine On Jul 20, 2016 01:23, "Jan Dittrich" <jan.dittrich(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

Pine, the time-limited watchlist feature is in phab; see the many subtasks of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8964 - AFAIK the primary work is going on in the tasks listed in this workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/expiring-watchlist-items/ - The WMDE TCB team are already in contact with the WMF CommTech team. Jan, The only research I know of is CommTech's survey earlier this year. The results are at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Survey_… I don't believe there is any other research that is focused primarily on how editors use watchlists in general. (I searched the meta Research: namespace, and wikipapers.referata.com, and the first three pages of scholar.google.com results. There was only 1 paper that seemed tangentially related.[1]). There is a linkdump (compilation of most major links, mostly phab tasks, in no particular order) regarding watchlist wishes/discussions/tasks/etc, from over the last 15 years, at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Watchlist_wishlist It needs better organization and more annotations, but should be helpful. I believe the major back-end feature that will enable many additional (widely- and long-desired) front-end features to be developed, is Multiple Watchlists, a.k.a. Priority Watchlists, a.k.a. Watchlist Groups, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3492 - If I understand correctly, the technical implementation that is currently being worked on for time-limited watchlists, will be a step towards that [by adding a new "name" column to the existing watchlist database tables, which can then be used in a variety of ways]. (I might be wrong or out-of-date on this, though.) From deep within all those links, the most intriguing item from a UX perspective, is probably the old smartwatchlist.js userscript at Enwiki. See screenshots at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:UncleDouggie/smart_watchlist.js#Scr… See also the "Requested features" list near the top of the page. It is/was a very powerful tool, that could be used in a variety of ways. It was a bit buggy a few years ago (I haven't tried it recently), and the author hasn't edited in many years. My only major criticism of it was the inability to mass-categorize pages - they had to be categorized one-by-one (unfeasible with my 9,000+ watchlisted pages). Many good ideas within. Hope that helps! Quiddity / Nick [1] http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20150009483 -- See also the "Wiki Accountability and Culture Shift" video linked at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Darenwelsh#Videos for a presentation with those slides. On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l