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Make it possible to automatically add pages to watchlist when adding a new section
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Description

When you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist or https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist we have several options:

  • Add pages I edit to my watchlist
  • Add pages I move to my watchlist
  • Add pages I create to my watchlist
  • Add pages I review to my watchlist

We should add an option to add pages where you create a new section to add them to your watchlist. Something like:

  • Add pages I add a new section to, to my watchlist

So when a user opens a page with "&section=new" and this option is enabled, the checkbox for "Watch this page" is checked.


Version: 1.18.x
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz33582

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:02 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz33582.
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Created attachment 9822
Patch to add the watchnewsections option

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Note though that while the four mentioned options are mutually exclusive, this option according to the patch would act as an logical or.

Personally, I find the proposed behaviour too fine-grained.

Edit and create are also an or right now. So these are not all four mutually exclusive.

This behavior would be very useful for talk pages: You leave someone a note and you want to have the page on your watchlist so you notice the reply.

(In reply to comment #3)

Edit and create are also an or right now. So these are not all four mutually
exclusive.

Either I create a page or I edit an existing one - where do these overlap?

This behavior would be very useful for talk pages: You leave someone a note and
you want to have the page on your watchlist so you notice the reply.

But if you reply on another talk page, you wouldn't want to watch that? I think the real solution to this would be Chinese Democra^W^WLiquidThreads 3.0.

But just to be clear: I don't think this patch does any harm.

I'm not sure I like adding a new option here; it feels unnecessary. Existing pref for editing pages should take effect here...?

sumanah wrote:

(In reply to comment #5)

I'm not sure I like adding a new option here; it feels unnecessary. Existing
pref for editing pages should take effect here...?

Marking patch reviewed.

Maarten, thank you for the patch. If/when you revise it, could I ask you to use developer access to directly suggest it into our Git source control system?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow#How_to_submit_a_patch

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM
Tgr subscribed.

Seems like this will become unecessary once DiscussionTools with its section watching mechanism is deployed everywhere.