On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 10:46 US/Pacific, K Forstner wrote:
Time for the silly question(s). Wasn't the watchlist feature disabled some time ago?
No. For people with very long watchlists the default time period shown on [[Special:Watchlist]] has been drastically reduced, that's all.
Also a note: THERE WILL BE NO FEATURE BY WHICH ARBITRARY PEOPLE CAN VIEW ANYONE ELSE'S WATCHLIST WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. The idea is very unpopular, and for good reason.
Hypothetically we could make an opt-in 'public watchlist', but few people think this would be useful, and you can do more flexible things by creating pages of links.
More likely we might add a "N users are watching this page" to the page stats, which is not privacy-invasive but perhaps informative.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)