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Je Dimanĉo 25 Majo 2003 02:37, Erik Moeller skribis: (proposed additional watchlist munging options)
| .. in the following namespaces: | | [x] Articles, meta, images, user pages | | [x] Discussion pages |
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| Watchlist entries will expire after | | [0 ] days in the article namespaces | | [7 ] days in the discussion namespaces |
Oh ugh.
How do you plan on making that work cleanly? Pages in plain & talk spaces are treated as common bundles: you can't watch one and not the other. This is very deliberate, in order to make sure that new talk discussion will show up in your watchlist for pages you're watching without any intervention on your part, even if the talk page did not previously exist. And so changes to a page you're discussing will automatically show up in your watchlist, no with no intervention on your part. You can't separate them, because that would be to defeat the purpose of talk pages.
The idea that pages should "expire" from my watchlist strikes me as, well, not at all desirable. My browser already shows me links to pages I've visited in the past few days, and my brain remembers the pages I'm working with right now; I want a watchlist to keep track of things long-term. I want it to show up that article I created two years ago that someone has just added to (or vandalized), or that vaguely interesting article i clicked 'watch' on last August that has suddenly blossomed and now I ought to check it out.
Should it be easier to take things off the watchlist? Yes, definitely. Should things expire automatically? No, no, no, please no.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)