[WikiEN-l] Watchlists (was: Re: Meaningful estimates of popularity?)

[Anthony]

On Nov 25, 2007 9:59 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Meanwhile my watchlist is totally useless as it's full of pages that I
> lost interest in over a year ago. There's no way to trim the fat
> either - I can either manually remove every single old page, or I can
> clear the entire lot. But how do I clear just the pages I haven't
> edited in more than six months?
>
Sounds like a trivial query for anyone with toolserver access to run.
Someone might have already set up a script to output all pages that
haven't been edited in X days.  Then download the list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist/raw , run "sort file1
file2 | uniq -u", and import the new list using
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist/raw