I've been surprised at the number of editors who watchlist my talk page,
but the experiences invariably been positive. In some cases my talk page
has been vandalized, and I don't think I've ever been the first to see the
vandalism, I invariably see that the TPS has reverted it. More importantly,
on several occasions I've been involved in a discussion with an editor and
a TPS has volunteered very helpful advice.
I have no idea whether it's technically possible to stop such behavior but
I don't particularly care as I am adamantly opposed to stopping it.
I get that some people might see the term "stalker" as negative, given that
it is almost always a term self invoked, it doesn't make my list of the top
1000 things to worry about.
Sphilbrick
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Yeah, I don't guess this is a matter of whether it is technically possible,
but rather if the community would like to allow such functionality (what
would then stop a troll to selectively disable all admins to watch his/her
talkpage?)
Lodewijk
2016-05-27 6:31 GMT+02:00 James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>om>:
Talk pages are for communication. If people were
unable to watch these
pages they would become less useful.
J
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> "Talkpage watcher" would do fine.
>
> Newyorkbrad/IBM
>
> On 5/26/16, David Goodman <dggenwp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > talk-page stalker is not necessarily an unfriendly term. It's meant
as
an
> > explanation for why the person saw the question, and posted there.
But
> > perhaps we could find a better term for
this, as stalker does have
> > unfortunate connotations.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Trillium Corsage <
> trillium2014(a)yandex.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> My English Wikipedia talkpage is watchlisted by a surprising number
of
>>
users that I have no cooperative or friendly editing relationship
with.
> >> Some of them refer to themselves as "talkpage stalkers." Might it
be
> >> possible for a user to prohibit such persons from watchlisting him
or
> her?
> >> If it's not possible to selectively prohibit, how about an on/off
> switch,
> >> i.e. *no-one* may watchlist an editor's individual talkpage.
> >>
> >> Trillium Corsage
> >>
> >> 21.05.2016, 02:20, "Johan Jönsson" <email clipped>:
> >> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn
<dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >> >> Hi everyone,
> >> >>
> >> >> WMF's Community Tech team is starting to work on a
Cross-wiki
> >> watchlist,
> >> >> one of the top 10 wishes in the Community Wishlist Survey that
we
> >> conducted
> >> >> at the end of last year. [1]
> >> >>
> >> >> We're running a survey on how people use their watchlists, to
help
>>
inform
>> >> our work.
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > A couple of months ago, the Community Tech team ran a survey to
gather
> >> > information on how Wikimedians use their watchlists. You can see
the
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Survey_…
> >
> > If you're interested, there are also some very early and rough
> > wireframes available on the project page:
> >
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Current…
>>
>
>> > //Johan Jönsson
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