At 07:24 AM 14/09/02 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
At 01:54 PM 9/14/02 +0100, you wrote:
Anyway, to make this a more worthwhile email - wouldn't it be nice if there was an option whereby you could have pages you edit automatically put into your watch list?
-- Khendon (Jason Williams)
Once you've written on a few controversial articles like [[Scotland]] or [[History of England]] or, God help us, [[Law]] your watchlist will be a full plate without adding in hundreds of routine pages.
Two fixes come to mind: making the autowatching trigger for major edits only, and giving the autowatch a time duration. For example, I would love a feature that would automatically add pages I've made major edits to to my watchlist for 7 days (or 30 or whatever), after which they drop off the list (unless I've made a new major mod myself). That way, I'd be able to see what sort of responses and modifications are made immediately after I've made a major contribution to an article, but it's not there forever.
Of course, manually-added page watches would have an indefinite duration, as currently happens.