New subject: Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 146, Issue 90

27 May 2016

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 &lt;jmh649(a)gmail.com&gt;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 &lt;newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com&gt;
 wrote:

 > "Talkpage watcher" would do fine.
 >
 > Newyorkbrad/IBM
 >
 > On 5/26/16, David Goodman &lt;dggenwp(a)gmail.com&gt; 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&gt;
 > > 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
&lt;dhorn(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
 > 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
   > > results here:
> >
> 

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…
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