Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Larger suggestions/Cascade-watching/Proposal
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- Problem: Users watching a page are not notified of changes to transcluded pages.
- Proposed solution: Implement "cascade-watching" so that users watching a page are notified of changes to transcluded pages.
- Who would benefit: All watchers.
- More comments: Some use cases:
- Changes to templates used in all kinds of pages. Such changes often affect the content and not just the format of the pages, but users watching them are not notified.
- Changes to excerpts done via en:Template:Excerpt or other methods. Currently, usage of excerpts in featured and important articles is controversial because users watching the articles are not notified of changes to sub-articles (unless they also watch the sub-articles), see en:Module talk:Excerpt#Should featured articles also use excerpts? Having excerpts on more featured and important articles would go a long way in spreading their existence and usefulness (namely to prevent duplicate work, improve content quality and foster collaboration).
- Changes to sub-pages such as are often used in Village Pumps and non-encyclopedic pages. For instance, if I watch Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Watchlists I'm not notified of changes to this sub-page (Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Watchlists/Cascade-watching).
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T55525
- Proposer: Sophivorus (talk) 13:32, 19 January 2022 (UTC)