Eclecticology wrote:
Tarquin wrote:
Could the WatchList page be limited to a number of days like RecentChanges? Mine is getting rather long & it takes a while to generate. Maybe a truncated WatchList page could give a link to a complete watchlist which would be displayed as a dumb list with no dates & times of edits (which I presume is what causes the load on the server)
At the risk of being slightly sarcastic, wouldn't a better solution be to edit your own WatchList to remove things that you no longer really need to watch?
No, I want a long Watchlist too, and I agree with Tarquin. I want to know if *any* of these pages is edited, however minorly, but I don't want to wait for them to load on the special page. For my money, adopting the format of other special pages, listing only the past 3 days or the past 30 edits by default, will be quite sufficient; no need for new formats like dumb lists.
-- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia-l@math.ucr.edu
Toby Bartels wrote:
No, I want a long Watchlist too, and I agree with Tarquin. I want to know if *any* of these pages is edited, however minorly, but I don't want to wait for them to load on the special page. For my money, adopting the format of other special pages, listing only the past 3 days or the past 30 edits by default, will be quite sufficient; no need for new formats like dumb lists.
I sometimes use my watchlist like a bookmark list to hold things that I might want to jump to later -- particularly things in the non-article namespaces which can't be gotten at through the search function.
A dumb/long list is nice because I can use my browser's text search on the titles listed in it; but the need for this would largely go away if I could search in Wikipedia: and User:.
(Sure, I could just use the 'bookmark' function of my browser, but that would be cheating, wouldn't it?)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:21:22AM -0700, Toby Bartels wrote:
Eclecticology wrote:
Tarquin wrote:
Could the WatchList page be limited to a number of days like RecentChanges? Mine is getting rather long & it takes a while to generate. Maybe a truncated WatchList page could give a link to a complete watchlist which would be displayed as a dumb list with no dates & times of edits (which I presume is what causes the load on the server)
At the risk of being slightly sarcastic, wouldn't a better solution be to edit your own WatchList to remove things that you no longer really need to watch?
No, I want a long Watchlist too, and I agree with Tarquin. I want to know if *any* of these pages is edited, however minorly, but I don't want to wait for them to load on the special page. For my money, adopting the format of other special pages, listing only the past 3 days or the past 30 edits by default, will be quite sufficient; no need for new formats like dumb lists.
The time is spent looking which pages have changed, not in formating the list. (Despite you sitting on a very slow internet connection and having to wait for the download).
Regards,
JeLuF
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