Watchlist behavior is complex confidential behavior. It is probably impossible to obtain a representative sample. What could be done is investigate patterns of watchlist, and article maintenance, behavior.
Fred
James Howison wrote:
Currently my plan is to assume that anyone who has edited an article in the past 6 months has it on their watchlist. Obviously a very corse assumption.
I don't think that most people add most articles they edit to their watchlist. I don't (my watchlist has about 3k and I've edited ~30k distinct articles, IIRC).
I'd assume that people who watchlist the article are, usually:
- their creator
- editors who contributed to it extensively
- editors who discussed it on talk
- editors who have made 1+ revert on it
That said, I'll stress again that neither of those is certain.
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