On 2013-02-28 10:22 AM, "Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W." < JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI@saic.com> wrote:
I do a lot of work on Commons, while using a setting that all pages I
edit go to my watchlist. In the past I was able to control the size of my watchlist by occasionally purging it by editing raw watchlist. However when Cat-a-lot gadget become available I initially did not configure it properly and all files I edit with it also ended up on my watchlist. Pretty soon my watchlist become too big to edit. I am now at 36k pages and I definitely need to purge it.
What can be done about it? I asked few people and asked on some talk
forums but nobody knew the answer. I would be OK with deleting everything.
Thanks
Jarek T. User:jarekt _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Clearly we need to institute some form of paging on the raw watchlist page for cases like this...
The only thing I can think of (that doesnt involve changes to mediawiki) is write some js that goes through watchlistraw api module (which is paged) and deletes everything in a loop.
-bawolff