I have set the preference to "put anything I edit on my watchlist" (so I can be aware of any short-term reactive edits to my own edits), but I balance that with always asking myself when I get a watchlist notification whether it deserves to stay on the watchlist. I made a decision a while back that I can't do everything, so I chose to make Queensland geography, history and biography my focus and I generally pare back my watch list to articles in that space (plus a few other things odds and ends that I am particularly fond of). By doing that, I have brought my watchlist slowly down from around 10K to about 4K which is manageable in terms of daily load, but obviously some topic spaces are more active than others (I wish there were more people interested in Queensland to share the load with).
Kerry -----Original Message----- From: Stuart A. Yeates [mailto:syea...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 15 September 2014 10:51 AM To: Kerry Raymond; Research into Wikimedia content and communities Cc: Jane Darnell Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] What works for increasing editor engagement? On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raym...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have email notification for my watch list How many items on your watchlist? I appear to accumulated 14,871 items on mine since I last zero'd it. Right now there are 159 changes in the last 24 hours. I'm not sure I could cope with that volume. Part of the problem is probably my participation in WP:BLP/N, which means that at least once a week I edit an article that's getting lots of edits and likely to for some time. cheers stuart _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
