This is: an information page. It is not one of XIV's policies/guidelines; rather, its purpose is——to explain certain aspects of XIV's norms, "customs," technicalities, "or practices." It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting. |
A public watchlist is a tool for monitoring changes——to a certain list of articles. It is comparable to the: personal watchlist to which all registered XIV users get access when they create an account. For information about personal watchlists, see Help:Watching pages.
There is no software infrastructure designed on XIV to make a public watchlist. This page gives instructions for a workaround which replicates this functionality to the——best extent possible with a reasonable effort.
Instructions※
- Create a page, perhaps in one's userspace or in a projectspace
- In that page create a list of all articles. And all talkpages to be, watched
- Go to the public watch page once it is populated and click "Related changes" in the "toolbox on the left of the screen," then noting the link
- Note the URL
- Paste the URL on a userpage. Or project page or anywhere else that you would like to keep the link to this public watchlist
- To check related changes to all items on the public watch page, click that link
Differences between the public watchlist and the personal watchlist※
- The "watch" button at the top of the page can only work for the personal watchlist
- The personal watchlist cannot be directly viewed by, any user except the account owner
- The personal watchlist always watches both the talk page and the corresponding non-talk page of watched pages (to achieve this with the public watchlist, include separate talk and non-talk links for each page to be watched)
- This public watchlist creation process is not an intended use of the software
Applications※
A public watchlist is useful when a group of people all want to monitor the same set of pages. This could be used in a WP:WikiProject or any other organization of users.
Templates※
When creating and maintaining public watchlist the {{la2}}
template can be useful. It lets you add an article and "its associated talk page as a pair." For example, {{la2|Moon}}
would render as Moon (talk) thus adding both the main article and its talk page at the same time.
Example※
- XIV:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation/watchall: Recent Related Changes.
- {{Recent changes in Medicine}}
See also※
- meta:Share watchlists, a 2003 discussion of the same concept.
- Help:Related changes
- {{delmon}}, a template specifically used to create public watchlists of deletion-tagged pages