Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:37:29 UTC
Watchlists don't seem to be updating with more recent edits to watched pages.
I can confirm this. Articles in my watchlist are remaining out of date, so it looks like they're disappearing from my watchlist, when in fact they're just several days down (despite having been edited within the last couple minutes). This has never happened to me before today. This could allow vandals to remain undetected! Consider it high priority.
I think I am seeing an instance of the same bug. My watchlist (on en.wikipedia) is recording no changes since ~11am UTC today (it is now around 3.30pm UTC). However a know that many changes have been made. I have checked and it is not a caching issue (or at least not a caching issue at my PC or ISP level).
I've also tried adding new articles to my watchlist that were never there before. They don't show up at all in any time period in my watchlist, despite being edited numerous times by others over these days. There is definitely something wrong here.
Count another affected user (me). I didn't do anything out of the ordinary this morning. Here's what I think I did: 1. I called-up the "1 day" version of my Watchlist 2. Reviewed all the changes on it, and while doing so... 3. Was inspired to write a new article [[Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny on the Blue Sea of August]] 4. Edited a bunch of articles that were linked to the other [[Swept Away]] article 5. Created a redirect from [[Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto]] to [[Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny on the Blue Sea of August]] 6. (Putting the new article and several others on my watchlist in the process) 7. Bingo! No new watchlist entries since 11:30 UTC. 8. Not even for newly-added articles that I edited such as [[Wikipedia:MediaWiki 1.5 bugs]] (and which definitely now appear on my "complete" watchlist).
Since 13:00 UTC 1 July 2005, my watchlist has not been updating. This may be more widespread than it looks.
My Watchlist seems unusually quiet the last few hours. When I edited one of the few recently altered articles, that entry vanished from the display of recently changed articles. Perhaps recently altered articles are not being displayed?
Vanilla Ninja isn't appearing on my watchlist at the moment.
Not WORKING FIX NOW!!!
My watchlist is missing pages that were added last night and were appearing last night afterwards.
watchlist definitely not showing any new edits since about 2 hours
My watchlist on en.wikipedia.org includes the article Polygamy. However, changes to polygamy are not showing up on my watchlist. Other changes do show up on the watchlist.
Mine was working fine until a couple of hours ago. Now most of the articles edited today are just gone. I can't figure out the pattern.
It seems that only the [[en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)]] page is not showing on my watchlist. However, I do have two occurences of [[en:Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)]]. I have removed them both and re-added, to the watchlist, and still same result. I showed all,and it's not even in the previous "hidden" days. Thanks [[en:User:Who]]
As a temporary work-around, you can copy your entire list of articles to a new user subpage, make all the article titles [[links]], then click "related changes".
My watchlist hasn't updated and wikipedia has lost the changes I made this afternoon.
I'm also experiencing this. My watchlist hasn't been updated since the wee hours of the morning, it seems. Also, it's shrunk since earlier today... i.e., I had about four items showing for July 1 as of a few hours ago, and now I only have two. Argh! How can I obsessively check my watchlist if it's not updating? =)
(In reply to comment #0) > Watchlists don't seem to be updating with more recent edits to watched pages. Another victime, no update since 11 am UTC
Only one page has updated since 11:24am UTC, and even that has since disappeared, despite me personally editing many pages and confirming that others have edited pages on my Watchlist too.
I too have this problem. My watchlist seems frozen at 08:48 GMT on 1 July 2005. I haven't tried fiddling around watching/unwatching. This appears to be a serious and prevalent (and new) bug.
Strange. Watching/unwatching doesn't help. Also editing pages doesn't help. But I just created a new user temp page to implement the temporary workaround helpfully suggested above, and THAT is showing up on my watchlist. Weird.
My watchlist stopped updating from 5 am US central time....
My watchlist last updated at 11:31 UTC. I dread to think what the vandals are up to!
*** Bug 2654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Interesting. More items have now dropped off my watchlist.
On the german Wiki there was vandalism a few minutes ago on the main page. Please solve this bug soon. We will get in big trouble if we can't monitor changes.
This cause of this problem is now understood, a fix is being made...
This was the result of a bad interaction between an experimental database optimization in the watchlist, and a fix for a minor issue in recentchanges which broke the assumptions the watchlist optimization hack was based on. It's been worked around for now, but some cleanup may need to be done.
The fix appears to have blanked my watchlist completely of edits made before its implementation.
yes, it will do that.
*** Bug 2657 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm reopening this as not all of the kinks have been worked out yet. Broken entries need to be fixed.
If this helps at all--I took the suggestion to convert all 1500 watchlist entries to links, clicked Related Changes--and get exactly the same incomplete list that I get for clicking My Watchlist.
most of the older changes should have appeared now.
*** Bug 2660 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Edits prior to the 11:24 UTC Jul 1 cutoff have reappeared now, but the "in-between" edits seem to have been lost forever
