On 2013-02-28 10:22 AM, "Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W." <
JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI(a)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
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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