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‘The page "x" has been added to your watchlist. Future changes to this page and its associated Talk or article page will be listed there, and the page will appear bolded in the list of recent changes to make it easier to pick out.’

Don't you think it would be better to say ‘emboldened’ instead of ‘bolded’? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Max naylor (talk • contribs) 18:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC).

It would be better to say bolded. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 04:02, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Technically, it would be better to say "emboldened", however, the grammatically correct version could confused some users. You could try "in bold", instead. 86.133.54.220 10:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Phrasing

I find the phrase "one can not watch one and not watch the other" to be rather unclear. Assuming that I have interpreted it correctly, could I suggest that it be changed to "if you watch one, you have to watch the other" or something of that nature? Mrplastic 08:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, your way is much clearer than the current version. Nationalparks 01:38, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 18:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Stylistically, this article goes back and forth between the friendly, second-person "you" and the formal, third-person "one." I think "you" is much better, but in any case, the article should be consistent. ThreeOfCups (talk) 04:34, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Expand Watchlist Option

What does the "Expand watchlist to show all applicable changes" setting do? Shouldn't info on this either be on Help:Preferences or Help:Watching pages? --Muéro 01:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

It makes the watchlist behave more like recent changes. The default setting (above option off) causes only changes to be shown when they correspond to the most recent version of a page. With the option switched on, however, all recent changes to your favourite pages are listed. 86.133.54.220 10:18, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Marking edits "read"?

I have a feature I'd like to suggest for the Watchlists on Wikpedia. It would be nice to be able to mark an edit as "read" so the page doesn't show up in my watchlist until there's another edit. I don't know if this is the relevant page to discuss it though. --Howdybob 09:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea as the amount of clutter in the watchlist page would decrease significantly. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 02:50, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm unwatching this page now, so anyone who wants to answer to me please mention it on my talk page. --Howdybob 07:25, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

I'll second addition of this feature. Either drop reviewed pages from the watch list or mark them much like how Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/patrolled_pages patrolled pages get marked. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 18:12, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Protection

This is a copy of the master help page at Meta. 
Do not edit this copy. Edits will be lost in the next update from the master page.

Why do we even need this? If we do not want it edited, why don't we just protect it? It seems much easier to me.--Chili14^{(Talk|Contribs)} 18:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree with Chili14 here. --S iva1979^{Talk to me} 18:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

At a guess, I'd say because the bot that overwrites it from meta probably doesn't have admin powers... -- nae'blis 03:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

30 day cutoff?

Trying to catch up after an extended wikibreak, I can't seem to view changes more than 30 days old in my watchlist. I know I have pages that were last edited before that - my timestamp page is one of them. Is this an undocumented feature? DenisMoskowitz 19:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

This is the same as for recent changes - watchlist items are taken from the same temporary cache of changes, and this is periodically automatically pruned, so these items will not be available past a set time. 86.133.54.220 10:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Multiple Watchlists

Is it possible to combine watchlists from multiple Wikipedias into a single page? I am currently monitoring articles on both the French and English Wikipedias, and it would be convienent for all edits to be reported in one place.

Michaelbusch 01:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I had the same request here:

I move it to here now, since it is the appropriate location.

@Michael: I would say: you should vote for the bug, at the moment, we have 3 votes for it. ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 14:47, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

start quote:

Hi, I am now participating on many wikis: Wikipedia (English, German), Wikiversity (English, German, beta), Wikibooks,... just to name some. My problem now is: I have to go to every wiki to log in with a different password (no, I won't use one single pwd for all :-) ). Isn't there a possibility to have one page only, where I can redirect all my watchlists (e.g. Special:watchlist) to? And then of course when clicking on it, I go to the different wikis. --Erkan Yilmaz 21:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Another possibility for this: I could also imagine, that I could get a daily digest for each wiki by mail --Erkan Yilmaz 06:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, they are already in request:

end quote

New feature?

As of today, when I check at my watchlist I see numbers (positiv and negativ) beside edits.What are they??? --Powo 20:54, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

It looks like the number tells you how many characters were added/deleted in a specific change. A negative number says how many characters were deleted, positive number says how many characters were added and a zero means the number of deleted characters and added characters are the same. That's my guess at least. Jtrost (^T | C | _#) 13:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Added or removed characters. — Jonathan Kovaciny (talk|contribs) 16:53, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Having just found this page in desperation at finding the reason for the seemingly random coloured characters that recently appeared in my watchlist and, having learnt what they do, I really fail to see the use of such a feature. For the vast majority of editors it's nothing more than page clutter. Surely something like this should be disabled by default on all accounts? If some character counting geek needs it then let them hack around with their css file! M100 22:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

You can get rid of it -- Arriva436 19:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Useless for deletes

Now this is something that really aggravates me: When some admin decides to delete an article or image without warning (something which should be much more controversial as it is), why does the watchlist not even tell me? Surely, that is a rather major change?

Has happened to me only two-three times in a long wikipedia service, but its extremely irritating nonetheless. MadMaxDog 09:04, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't like that either. — Jonathan Kovaciny (talk|contribs) 16:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

If you were watching a page then you will see the notice for deletion which includes a link to the discussion page about that deletion. Watch-list and participate in that discussion. That said - I do wish it was possible to watch-list a section of a page as a the delete-discussion pages will get updated anyone makes an edit even if it was about one of the images/pages you are not interested in. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 19:21, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Help link on watchlist.

Could an admin please add a link to Help:Watching pages at the top of the watchlist. Something like this:

You have 167 pages on your watchlist (excluding talk pages); you can display and edit the complete list. See Help:Watching pages to learn how to use this page.

Thanks. — Jonathan Kovaciny (talk|contribs) 16:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)