You can update the watch period at any time, including switching from temporary to permanent status. Temporarily watched pages are usually represented by a half star as opposed to a full star, which represents permanently watched pages. To find out when Watchlist Expiry will be enabled on your wiki, you can check out the release schedule on Meta-wiki. For documentation on how to use the feature, please visit Help:Watchlist expiry.
When the user is logged in , every page has a link to the user's watchlist, also accessible by the link Special:Watchlist.
This page shows a list of all recently changed watched pages, separated by days, ordered backward according to the time of the edit. Depending on site configuration, the page name is bolded if the page has changed after the last time the user viewed the page while logged in. Technically, the watchlist is just another way to filter recent changes. One can hide or show the following types of edits, using the corresponding links: minor edits, bot edits, one's own edits.
These can also be set in preferences as initial options when the user comes to Special:Watchlist page. Another preference option, although named "Maximum number of days to show in watchlist", also sets only the initial value for a period of time for which changes are shown. This period can be easily changed with corresponding links. There are two possible problems if a page had a non-minor recent edit, but the last edit was marked as minor :.
Since one is typically interested in all changes since one last checked, in this case the history of the page needs to be checked. Another preference option is "Maximum number of changes to show in watchlist:". A site can limit the maximum value for this option, for example the maximum seems to be on WMF projects. The watchlist is only one of the features with regard to watching pages; even without ever using it, specifying pages to watch is useful.
This is actually enabled together with email notification. From MediaWiki 1. This will not be repeated until you view the page. Viewing a diff or the page history is not enough. Note that you have to be logged in when viewing the page, otherwise you will not be notified of further changes. Optionally this notification system can ignore minor changes this is the default. The notifications for user talk edits are enabled by another preference option. Having a separate email for every edited page that one likes to watch in the sense of the other watch features, may be too much.
For the latter, as a workaround, one may be tempted to log in under a different username just to specify a different typically smaller watchlist for email notification. However, after viewing a page under one username, one would have to clear the notification flag for that page for the other username too. Since May the feature is enabled on all Wikimedia projects for the user talk notifications, and since April for watchlist edits too.
From early May , the preference for edited pages to be added to watchlist is the default. Email notification has many settings, so if you think you've missed something check them carefully. Look for bolded items in your Special:Watchlist: they're pages you've not yet seen after recent changes and you won't be notified about them note: your wiki may have hidden this essential highlighting feature.
This behavior is not documented nor configurable and has some bugs; see T See also the list of known bugs. You can update the watch period at any time, including switching from temporary to permanent status. Temporarily watched pages are usually represented by a half star icon as opposed to a full star, which represents permanently watched pages. If you would like to continue watching pages permanently, you won't need to change any of your current processes.
The user flow for permanently watching pages has remained intact. There are three primary ways to watch pages temporarily. All of these methods follow the same way you may watch a page permanently, except you now have the option to watch a page temporarily. You can change a watch period at any time, either to a new temporary period or to a permanent period. There are multiple ways to do this, as described below:. There is no way to receive notifications when a page is about to expire or has expired from your watchlist.
However, there are many ways to track and monitor temporarily watched pages, which we have detailed below. You cannot set a watch period or change an existing watch period when performing certain actions, such as delete, move, protect, block, upload, rollback, etc.
If the links to the talk pages are put just for this purpose, a blank space as link label can be used, which makes the link invisible and ineffective, except for Related Changes. Also, using Related Changes there is not the convenience of pressing a "watch" link to add the current page to the list of "watched pages". Note that Related Changes does not detect an edit in the page itself and its talk page. Either include a self-link and a link to the talk page in the page, or put the page in another "special watchlist", or in one's standard watchlist.
Such pages can use the template mechanism to include other pages. However, see Pollution of categories. Watching pages in a category by applying Related Changes to the category has a major drawback: removal of a page from the category is not detected.
An advantage of using Related Changes as alternative for the list of watched pages is that a revision history of the page s with links is available, while the system does not keep a record of pages that one has watched. If privacy is a concern, an advantage of the watchlist feature if the list is not stored in a page on the wiki is that it does not publicly reveal one's interest in a page if one does not edit it.
As an alternative or in addition to using the watchlist feature, one can also define a user style for links to selected pages, putting in one's CSS a list of lines like:. On the Enhanced Recent Changes page it works like the bolding feature mentioned above, but it is more versatile, e. Furthermore, it also works on user contributions pages, and on regular pages also for piped links, but not for indirect links through a redirect. It also applies, less usefully, for the section editing links in the page itself.
To highlight links to the given page also from other websites, including interlanguage links, use instead of the above:. Ordinary users or administrators cannot tell what is in your watchlist, or who is watching any particular page. Developers who have access to the servers that hold the Wikipedia database can figure out this kind of information. Publicly available database dumps do not include this kind of information.
Other languages:. Only non-dynamically-generated pages can be watched. Watchlist Expiry. There is also a drop-down box that allows to see the changes only in one specific namespace.
By default watchlist only shows the last edit to each watched page. Many experienced users prefer to use Expanded Watchlist. Other effects of watching a page.
Recent and related changes, page history. Email notification. Technical details. User preferences. Common misunderstandings. The notifications about a page that "has been created" may be about any log action such as protection on the page, see task T and sons. If you don't click the link in the notification, you won't receive it next time. Edits by authorised bots sometimes don't cause an email notification even if you've configured your preferences to receive one for that kind of action: namely, if they make a minor edit on your talk and you've set only?
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