On 15 September 2014 15:24, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
That is quite true. A deep modernization of the
Watchlist should be coupled
with the Flow poject somehow. Either Special:Watchlist itself should be
profoundly redesigned and upgraded, or the Flow+Echo notifications should
become so good that they can replace it.
Whatever you do, please don't try to replace the Watchlist with Echo
notifications; they serve quite different roles and are complementary,
not a surrogate.
The recent backlash that Echo received when it was updated last week
was in part because of that, as it included as notifications all the
updates that would normally be seek out at the watchlist and therefore
shouldn't generate an alert.
I agree that the Watchlist could be enhanced with more granular
filters, groupings and search functions. A lot of user workflows are
based on personal usages of the watchlist, which work as the de-facto
coordination tool between editors participating in the same projects.