Hi,
A discussion has started on-wiki about a global watchlist, and other
related improvements to the watchlist feature.
A few people have started to organize the various bug reports about
watchlists, but there is still much to do before we have a clear &
prioritized vision of what the watchlist feature should become.
Improving a feature as used and central as the watchlist has the
potential of drastically improving the users' experience, but is also
likely to cause an outcry if proper research isn't done in advance,
given that everyone has their own workflow.
Improving the watchlist feature isn't trivial, and it would help
developers if users could come together and prepare clear
specifications & prioritized features in advance.
I'd like to find a few people interested in working together to better
define the possible improvements, organize bug reports, prioritize
them into proper specifications, etc. in order to guide developers
who'd be interested in implementing these changes.
Are you interested in working on proposing a better watchlist feature?
(or spreading the word to your local community to see if other people
are interested?)
If so, your input would be appreciated there:
* Discussion:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Watchlist_wishlist
* Draft product page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Watchlist_wishlist
More information, quoted from my comment on the talk page:
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I think it would really help if someone could consolidate the existing
discussions, bugs, feature requests, etc. on a page. The main focus of
the page would be on a watchlist that works across wikis, but the page
could probably also benefit from prioritization of other related
features and enhancements of the watchlist interface itself.
Apart from prioritization, this would probably also benefit from
consolidating input from many users, to be sure that the use cases
we're talking about are consistent with how people use their
watchlists.
Basically, the questions we'd need to answer so that developers can
work on global watchlists are those:
* How do users use their watchlist?
* What would be the best way to implement a global watchlist? What
would it look like?
* What other changes would we need to make to the watchlist system and
interface to make this work?
* What other changes would we want to make to the watchlist system and
interface while we're at it?
Some of these questions can be answered by going through existing bugs
and discussions on bugzilla and wiki pages, and some will probably
require talking to users to get their perspective.
(from
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:New_editor_engagement/Watchlists…
)
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Guillaume Paumier