Last modified: 2014-11-04 22:53:05 UTC
as requested in bug 2294#c2 Hallo! [[en:Template:ARTICLESPACE/]] is related (in a construct with a set of templates) to [[en:Template:To do]]. The last creates "/to do" subpages. If you watch a page normaly you watch the TALK page by default. A future atribute BUNDLE for subpages should allow watching pages and subpages where this atribute is set automaticaly. It could be used for archives and project pages. Regards Reinhardt
As somebody pointed out on another bug report I just read, it's best to start with a description of the problem and only later suggest possible solutions. In this case, I think the problem you're trying to solve is "automatically watch all sub-pages of this page"; this implies several things: 1) the ability to add multiple pages to the watchlist "as a bundle" - as with bug 1710, this could, at its simplest, be done by generating a list of all eligible pages at the time of request, and adding each one to the watchlist (remember that a sub-page of "X" is simply one whose title begins "X"). Alternatively, you could have a special watchlist entry for "any title matching this pattern", but this might make displaying the user's watchlist even more inefficient than I believe it already is. 2) the ability to *remove* multiple pages from the watchlist "as a bundle" - again, this could be implemented simply by searching the watchlist for matching pages at the time of request; the "edit watchlist" page could perhaps group them as sets (which might be nice anyway) and provide an "unwatch this and all sub-pages" link where appropriate. 3) the ability to automatically start watching certain new pages - this is a much larger problem, but might be necessary to make this watching a "bundle" of sub-pages truly effective and useful; basically, it would require some way of filtering the log of new pages (and moved pages) to look for ones which were part of a watched "bundle" - where the "bundle" would probably be stored as a watchlist entry for the "parent" page with a special flag set. Notice that none of these require any changes to either the "parent page" or the sub-pages themselves - if I've understood your intention correctly, the feature would most logically be provided as an option on any page [in a namespace that "allows" sub-pages] to the user who's doing the watching. Note also that the features required could equally be applied more generally - in particular #3, if it could be implemented efficiently, might be useful as some kind of "watch for new articles with names matching <pattern>".
I also think that the proposed solution is really bad for the problem to be tackled. Especially as the _editor_ of a page would decide which pages are added to the watchlist of _someone else_. A solution for adding/removing bunches of pages to/from the watchlist should never ever be triggered by page content or page attributes. It _must_ always be in the responsibility of the person who is adding pages to his/her watchlist, so the searching or the pattern matching proposed by Imsop are way better as a solution.
*** Bug 3113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 12308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The current workaround is to use Special:RecentChangesLinked which is generally found to be inadequate.
Changed component to "Watchlist"
Open since 2005, inactive in the past three years... If we want to reflect the current plans, this should be "lowest".
(In reply to Quim Gil from comment #7) > Open since 2005, inactive in the past three years... If we want to reflect > the current plans, this should be "lowest". Setting accordingly. No one in Platform is working on this, but as always, patches are welcome.
