[WikiEN-l] Re: ALERT: Idea for new feature: "Who's watching this page?"

[Tim Starling]

Benjamin Esham wrote:
> On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 08:25  PM, Graham Burnett wrote:
> 
>> Idea for new feature: "Who's watching this page?"
>>
>> This got mooted on the Village Pump today- I'm STRONGLY against this, 
>> to the
>> extent that I'd withdraw from wikipedia with a demand that any history of
>> pages I'd watched be deleted from public record if it were to be 
>> implemeted.
>> Suffice to say many of us watch certain pages for many differing reasons
>> which are nobody elses business.
> 
> 
> Why can't we have a user preference that says "Hide my watchlist from 
> other users"?
> Then, on the "Who's watching this page?" page, there would be a note to 
> the effect
> that there are X additional users that are watching the page, but whom 
> do not want
> to be identified.  This seems like a balanced solution to me -- users 
> who value their
> privacy could choose not to be identified, but the useful statistic of 
> how many people
> there are that are watching the page would still be available.
> 
> Just a thought :-)
> 

My word, that *is* a good idea. Why didn't I think of that?

-- Tim Starling.