> > The alternative would be to set watchlist to show all changes and > > not just the last one, but then it would show one row per change or a group > > of rows per page, and that would make it even more cluttered. > That never looked cluttered to me. :)
It did to me, and AFAIK, you and I started editing Wikimedia roughly at the same time (give or a take a year or two). A matter of taste, I guess. When I show the Watchlist to new people, they interpret it in wildly different ways, all of which are incorrect. > Subpagination does help with this because you can filter new page creations. > All the problems you mentioned I consider solved since about 2006 on > it.wiki, modernise your practices. Sorry, but I wouldn't call subpagination and namespace selection "modernised". To begin with, to be able to use these things, one needs to learn what namespaces and subpages are; how many websites do you know that people need to *learn* how to use? I certainly don't want Wikipedia to be such a website. I want people to come here to write articles; this includes being able to participate in discussions about articles, and this shouldn't include the need to learn about namespaces and subpages. Also, why do I need to modernize my practices *separately* from other projects? I can understand that articles need to be written in each language (and I'm developing software to make that easier), I understand that the human side of community practices needs to develop on each project separately? Most projects in most languages - that's many hundreds of projects - don't have admins and techies that can manually customize templates, namespaces, bots, RSS, and so on. It doesn't scale. Flow basically productizes[1] these practices, makes them common, and removes the need to *learn* stuff. No, it's not ready yet, but the direction is right. [1] I'll keep repeating that I hate the word "productize", but I love the idea behind it. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
