On 6/5/08, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Having separate articles makes no difference for watchlists either, once you've got the articles loaded on your watchlist. And mass-addition of lots of pages to your watchlist is fairly trivial with "edit raw watchlist".
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That said, if you have so many articles that you can't *create* them by hand, then you're naturally going to have trouble *maintaining* them by hand.
If you're in a watchlist mindset, yes. This was my point about recentchanges though: since it's edit-based, not page-based, the only thing that affects the rate at which vandalism/etc can be dealt with is the project-wide edit rate. You don't need to know that a page exists to be able to check a diff via recentchanges, or via some automated tool that gets its information from recentchanges.
You're only going to have trouble maintaining more articles if the very existence of those articles attracts more vandalism, but that view would completely ignore what we've seen through the whole history of the project, which is that productive contributors are attracted at a greater rate than vandals. If FritzpollBot articles attract more vandals, they'll simultaneously attract more contributors.