On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
- Ease of maintenance - lists are much better. Only one article need
be watched for vandalism, bot updates can be done in one edit, etc,
Most simple vandalism isn't dealt with by watchlists anyway, but by recent changes listings, whether on-wiki, on the IRC feed or through separate tools that monitor these. Having separate articles makes no difference to these methods whatsoever, since they're edit-based and not page-based.
As for bots: well, the very reason for their existence is so that they can do the grunt work for us, and updates to large groups of articles is a perfect example of such work.