Last modified: 2013-04-22 13:35:21 UTC
Currently aftv5 has [[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5Watchlist]] for feedback for pages you watch. But some users outsource parts of their watchlist in e.g. thematic article lists[1] and watch the changes of that linked pages via [[Special:RecentChangesLinked]] ("Related changes"). It would be nice to have the functionality of the AFTv5-Watchlist for any page listing all feedback that is for pages that are linked from that page. Technical that should be very similar to Special:ArticleFeedbackv5Watchlist but may ran into the same performance problems if there are many pages linked. [1] such a page has wikilinks to the actual pages you want to watch.
I'm afraid this probably won't come any time soon: the watchlist feature is problematic by design. Special:ArticleFeedbackv5Watchlist is for now disabled on enwiki/frwiki (and may, once feedback size grows, at some point also be disabled on dewiki) The problem is that users (can and do) have so much watchlisted articles, that it becomes impossible to use an index to retrieve all data (resulting in expensive queries to fetch data). Caching is also no viable alternative, since they're unique per-user. The idea behind this feature is great, but for technical reasons is not currently viable. We'll first need to come up with a solution for the existing AFTv5 watchlist; which will require changes in MW watchlist feature. If/once that has been done, it would definitely make sense to bring this up again!
