Multiple Watchlists (Community Wishlist/W372)

Description

Proposal: Ability to create multiple watchlists of articles for various reasons.

Described in detail at Multiple watchlists, which was adequately supported but never implemented.

Amendment to original proposal

To ease implementation and/or reduce performance concerns, we could start with only allowing registered users to have a second watchlist and maybe limit that to a specific number of watched articles (less than 500 for example). Even if this only ever amounts to two total watchlists per user, it would be exponentially better than only having one.

Reasoning

While alternative options exist today, this proposed feature would allow registered users to maintain multiple private watchlists.

Assigned focus area

Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks

Type of wish

Feature request

Tags

Watchlist and recent changes

Affected users

All registered users

Phabricator tasks

T3492

Other details

Created: 05:36, 10 April 2025
Last updated: 12:13, 6 February 2026
Author: GoneIn60 (talk)

Voting

This wish currently has 13 supporters. Supporting this wish is currently disabled.

Supporters of this wish

Support GoneIn60 (talk) 05:36, 10 April 2025

Support Support Chicagodogs (talk) 17:49, 7 October 2025

Support Pppery (talk) 15:53, 10 October 2025

Support Nardog (talk) 10:11, 22 October 2025

Support Definitely implement this feature. Assadzadeh (talk) 04:25, 23 October 2025

Support Mxn (talk) 05:25, 23 October 2025

Support Dexxor (talk) 19:30, 31 October 2025

Support Flxml4 (talk) 05:55, 11 November 2025

Support Toadspike (talk) 12:48, 24 November 2025

Support Dengamlapotatisen (talk) 13:53, 12 January 2026

Support Bunnypranav (talk) 07:52, 13 January 2026

Support It would be nice for patrolling changes and help reverting vandalism. Joseph (talk) 09:14, 13 January 2026

Support Kowal2701 (talk) 16:43, 16 January 2026