On 28/06/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Another feature designed by luck was the fact that watchlists only display the current revisions of watched articles, not all changes during the specified period. This was a by-product of the cur/old split. While I was an editor I considered it an annoying bug, but when I actually "fixed" it, there was an outcry. So now it's hacked back in.
Indeed, this was in fact later "fixed" again by me, although I have to admit that that was an accident. There was, as I recall, another outcry, and you fixed it again, and then Wegge came along and made it into a preference to keep everybody happy.
Rob Church