On 15 September 2014 15:24, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@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.