Arcane 21 wrote: I believe this user preferences default change was intentional. On smaller MediaWiki installations (which is most of them), the new default behavior typically makes a lot of sense, as I understand it. However, treating rollback as the same as a manual edit probably needs further thought. And sysadmins of larger wiki installations probably want to re-visit whether the user preferences defaults are appropriate for their communities. MZMcBride

Thanks for the reminder. However, I think that not all those settings are not necessarily good, and here's why: * (bug 45020) Make preferences "Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist" and "pages and files I edit" true by default. This seems to be the default on Wikia, which I have also used, but not everyone wants to do thus. I personally only like to use a watchlist to keep track of select pages instead of every page I edit, so I find this default irritating. * (bug 45022) Make preference "Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" true by default. This is a good idea. * (bug 49719) Watch user page and user talk page by default. This will allow your new users to immediately start benefiting from the watchlist and email notification features, without needing to first read all the docs to find out that they're as useful as they are. This is a good idea. In short, the first setting strikes me as bad, but I think the other two are good ideas.