Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Watchlist highlighting

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Multiple watchlists

This sounds a lot like the previous requests for having Multiple watchslists. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3492 —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 13:22, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

That seems to be a more advanced version of this proposal (I am not suggesting you filter your watchlist by label, only that you can highlight the labels). Giraffer (talk) 17:19, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Having multiple watchlist via tags set on the watched articles is actually a quite interesting idea. If that is not part of the discussion in that code issues maybe it should be added, it may be better in practice than implementing this in other ways. One could also add multiple labels to one article...and from the main watchlist quickly click on any label to see that separate watchlist.

By the way I first thought of these labels were notes about why one watches the page (it can be easy to forget why a page was watchlisted in the first place). There are downsides to it but it clearly would be useful. If labels are implemented maybe the same code could also be used for longer notes. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:37, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

I mention this wish in an upcoming wishlist proposal – what about User talk:UncleDouggie/smart_watchlist.js though, does it partially implement this wish? Prototyperspective (talk) 20:38, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Progress into focus area

Hello Giraffer, thank you for making time to raise this problem of unmanageable watchlists. We have added this wish to a focus area named “Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks”. Please review the focus area and give feedback on the talkpage. If you are also ready to support this focus area, you may proceed to vote. Please remember to log in before using the support button. Thank you for submitting this wish once again. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 13:15, 19 August 2024 (UTC)