I read a complaint on the German mailing list about the watchlist search giving only changes in the last hour. And I think it's indeed a bad thing on the smaller Wikipedias.
Could this 'shortened watchlist time' for people with many watchlist entries perhaps be made variable through the Wikipedias?
Using the limit that in the checked period there should be less than 250 edits on average, I get to the following division, using http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia/Statistics/EN/TablesDatabaseEdit...
1 hour (75k-150k edits per month): en: 2 hours (25k-75k): de: 6 hours (12k-25k): fr:, nl: 12 hours (6k-12k): meta, pl:, sv:, ja: 1 day (2k-6k): eo:, es:, zh: 3 days (1k-2k): - 7 days: (<1k): cs:, ru:, other languages
Of course, it would be good to first check how many people are affected by this, that is, how many people have an overly large watchlist on a Wikipedia other than en:. If that are only 2 or 3 people, I guess our reaction should be "why bother?"
Andre Engels
Andre Engels wrote:
I read a complaint on the German mailing list about the watchlist search giving only changes in the last hour. And I think it's indeed a bad thing on the smaller Wikipedias.
Could this 'shortened watchlist time' for people with many watchlist entries perhaps be made variable through the Wikipedias?
I had started on code to set the cutoff time by the number of recent edits instead of vice versa, but I haven't finished it yet.
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