Help/Watchlist

<translate> Your watchlist is a display for [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking changes</tvar>|tracking changes]], similar to the <tvar name=rc>}}</tvar> display, but limited to showing changes only across your set of "watched" pages.</translate> <translate> You can see your watchlist by following the "<tvar name=watchlist>'</tvar>" link in your account menu (on the top right).</translate> <translate> This feature is only available to users who have registered and logged in.</translate>

Add pages to watchlist[edit]

</translate> <translate> Before you see anything interesting here, you have to actually add some pages to your watchlist.</translate> <translate> Do so by navigating to a page that interests you, and click the star icon <tvar name=star>File:OOjs UI icon star.svg</tvar> (or the <tvar name=watch></tvar> tab).</translate>

<translate> A page already in your watchlist will be marked with a star <tvar name=star>File:OOjs UI icon unStar.svg</tvar> (or an <tvar name=watch></tvar> tab).

If you want to remove pages from your watchlist, click on the star icon <tvar name=star>File:OOjs UI icon unStar.svg</tvar> (or the <tvar name=watch></tvar> tab).

Watchlist expiry[edit]

</translate> <translate> You can optionally select to watch a page for a temporary period of time.</translate> <translate> Once the watch period has expired, the page will be automatically removed from your watchlist.</translate> <translate> You can update the watch period at any time, including switching from temporary to permanent status.</translate> <translate> Temporarily watched pages are usually represented by a half star (as opposed to a full star, which represents permanently watched pages).</translate> <translate> For documentation on how to use the feature, please visit <tvar name=1></tvar>.</translate>

Why a watchlist[edit]

</translate> <translate> The watchlist feature is mainly useful on a very busy wiki where the <tvar name=rc></tvar> display becomes too overwhelming with many changes you don't want to follow.</translate> <translate> On a typical low traffic wiki, you can normally see all of the editing activity across the whole wiki without feeling overwhelmed.</translate> <translate> On a more busy wiki you will find that many edits are taking place on pages which you personally find less interesting.</translate> <translate> To help track changes which are more interesting, start !</translate>

<translate> Typically you would watch pages related to your interest areas, and also pages where you care most about the content.</translate> <translate> If you make a significant edit to a page, you might want to watch the page (so you know when there are any follow-up edits).</translate> <translate> Note that there is a also a checkbox on the edit screen ("<tvar name=watch>'</tvar>") for this purpose.</translate>

<translate> Your watchlist is personal.</translate> <translate> You can watch any page you want.</translate> <translate> That choice will remain private.</translate>

Use your watchlist[edit]

</translate> <translate> On the watchlist page, some page names appear in bold.</translate> <translate> This indicates whether or not you have visited the page to see the change.</translate> <translate> It's a bit like read/unread emails in an email inbox.</translate> <translate> The <tvar name=rc></tvar> page will also have some new bold highlighting, but for a different reason.</translate> <translate> Here bold is indicating edits to pages on your watchlist.</translate>

<translate> [[<tvar name=1>Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review</tvar>|You can combine different kinds of filters]] to display the results you want. </translate>

<translate> To improve the filtering, you can also add private labels to your watchlist pages.</translate> <translate> See <tvar name=1></tvar> for more information about this feature.</translate>

Email notifications[edit]

</translate> <translate> According to the relevant <tvar name=1></tvar>, changes to pages you watch may also be notified to you by email.</translate> <translate> The main preference for this is <tvar name=1></tvar>.</translate>

<translate> After receiving an email notification for a page, you have to visit the page while logged in if you want to be notified of further changes to the same page. </translate>

Watchlist feed with token[edit]

You can set up an RSS or Atom feed of your watchlist that is accessible even when logged out:</translate>

Get your watchlist token from <tvar name=2>Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist-tokenwatchlist</tvar></translate>

Your watchlist RSS feed can be found at <tvar name=url>https:/api.php?action=feedwatchlist&wlowner=USERNAME&wltoken=TOKEN</tvar>, where USERNAME is your username without the User: prefix and TOKEN is the watchlist token.</translate>

If you would prefer an Atom feed rather than an RSS one, add "<tvar name=1>&feedformat=atom</tvar>" to the URL of your feed.</translate>

To further customise your watchlist feed add different parameters to the URL, see <tvar name=1></tvar>.