There is no mention of this feature in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback but according to Helder in
this bug report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66273
mediawiki insert every page to which a rollback api was used on to a
users watchlist.
Is there a way to disable it?
:17 +0200
From: benap...@gmail.com
To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist
There is no mention of this feature in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback but according to Helder in
this bug report https
Arcane 21 wrote:
This seems to be a MW bug. Ever since we updated our wiki to MW 1.23,
this has been happening to lots of our users, myself included.
Apparently, the option to add pages edited to the watchlist is checked by
default, which probably needs to be disabled by default.
I believe this
On Jun 10, 2014 9:18 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
And
sysadmins of larger wiki installations probably want to re-visit whether
the user preferences defaults are appropriate for their communities.
They also may wan to consider reading the release announcement emails…
(e.g.
idea.
In short, the first setting strikes me as bad, but I think the other two are
good ideas.
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:22:26 +
From: jer...@tuxmachine.com
To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Preventing MW from adding a page to watchlist
On Jun 10, 2014 9:18
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no mention of this feature in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback
Unfortunately, the documentation on mediawiki.org is sometimes out of date.
Please feel free to update it.
but according to Helder in this
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote:
I personally only like to use a watchlist to keep track of select pages
instead of every page I edit, so I find this default irritating.
Then change the preference. That's what preferences are *for*.
The default value for a
That's what I needed - I prefer using documentation rather than random
options :)
Thanks
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Petr Bena benap...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no mention of this feature in
