Last modified: 2014-11-17 09:45:09 UTC
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 "§ion=new" and this option is enabled, the checkbox for "Watch this page" is checked.
Created attachment 9822 [details] Patch to add the watchnewsections option
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...?
(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
