Re: [Wiki-research-l] Polling the watcher's of a page. Possible?

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Why does it matter who has the page on watchlist? One can also get the 
"contagion" looking at recent changes or stumbling upon the change while 
reading the page, or while looking at a subsequent diff e.g. by a vandal.
	Also, unless you plan to try a contagion yourself (not a good idea), 
you'll be looking at past data, but we don't have the watchlists for the 
past.
	Moreover, you'd need to find a way to establish a causation connection 
between two similar edits in any case, or they could just both caused by 
a coordinated effort like a policy change or a cleanup sprint or a 
collaboration between two users. Speaking of which, an edit (especially 
if repeated on multiple pages) can also cause "retortion" edits in 
opposite direction on other articles, or policy changes in either 
direction, so the "contagion" may not be caused directly but rather by 
causing a coordinated effort, spreading either the virus or its antivirus.

Nemo
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