From: Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Email_notification_%28documentation%29#Basics

Thomas,

I see that you added the number of people watching a page to the information on the watchlist page. On en, at least, this would be a security problem.

It would be interesting to be able to find unwatched pages to adopt, but it would make vandalism more durable. I can envision some of the more persitent vandals and vandabots only tampering with unwatched pages, in order to have a more lasting effect. They would still show up in recent changes, but it is much easier to slip past RC patrol than to evade the people who are watching a given page.

Is there any plan to implement this in any of the Wikipedias? Or is this targeted at third party MedaWiki installations? I see your posts on here often. You seem to have done a good job on coding, but I have heard no word on implementation.

Ben