Jump to content

Watchlist review timeout issue (Community Wishlist/W231)

In progress
From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki

View all wishes.

Description

The residual watchlist of editors who missed out on having alternatives in creating and managing watchlists, in most cases cannot, despite the excellent improvements to the system - review and edit their watchlist due to timeout issues.

If I have read them correctly - here have been similar discussions over time to split/separate watchlists into smaller components. Perhaps this should be updated to make a definite program to help editors work with lists that have large size to be able to manage the list. The timeout restriction might not be changeable, so that the separation into smaller lists might be a more viable change area.

If there was some way to help to review or edit larger watchlists of size, by allowing editing type or category of item - rather than the whole watchlist, it would be really great!

Assigned focus area
Type of wish
I'm not sure or I don't know
Tags
Affected users

Editors who have accidentally accrued a large watchlist

Phabricator tasks
Other details
  • Created: 10:36, 7 August 2024
  • Last updated: 15:29, 23 October 2025
  • Author: JarrahTree (talk)
Voting

This wish currently has 1 supporter. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish
Support Pppery (talk) 16:23, 10 October 2025