Hi all, A bit of brainstorming here. Our two basic tools to help editors track changes to articles they have an interest in are the watchlist and 'my contributions' lists.

Summarised: Watchlist: Show me every change recently made to any article I've noted as "interesting", most recent first. My contributions: Show me every change I've recently made, and tell me whether anyone has touched it since then, sorted by when I made the change.

However, what I really want is: Show me every change made to any article I've worked on recently. Let me "approve" changes so they don't show up again.

It's kind of half way between: the "my contributions" is primarily interesting for the presence or absence of "(top)" which means that no one has touched it - but it doesn't show who changed it, when, or how often. Watchlist is more detailed, but quickly gets out of control and you end up seeing changes on articles you haven't touched in months, but haven't bothered to remove from your list.

I gather that there exists a mechanism for 'approving' changes at the personal level (I don't want/need anyone else to see which changes I've approved). If that were combined with a way of sorting the watchlist in order of the last time I made a change to that article, this would alost satisfy the need I see (apart from the watchlist getting out of control...). Is this possible?

To be quite specific, let's imagine there are three articles, A, B and C, which I've worked on in that order - C most recently. However, since I've worked on them, editors have made changes to them in the order B, C, A. Watchlist currently would show them:

A C B.

I would like to see them: C B A

Does anyone agree that this would be a more useful and relevant way of showing changes? Are there further enhancements one could add to quickly see what's changed since the last time one checked - within the narrow sphere of one's own interests?

Steve