I've been surprised at the number of editors who watchlist my talk page, but the experiences invariably been positive. In some cases my talk page has been vandalized, and I don't think I've ever been the first to see the vandalism, I invariably see that the TPS has reverted it. More importantly, on several occasions I've been involved in a discussion with an editor and a TPS has volunteered very helpful advice.
I have no idea whether it's technically possible to stop such behavior but I don't particularly care as I am adamantly opposed to stopping it. I get that some people might see the term "stalker" as negative, given that it is almost always a term self invoked, it doesn't make my list of the top 1000 things to worry about. Sphilbrick On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 8:00 AM, <wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Community Tech survey on watchlist use (Lodewijk) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 10:06:26 +0200 > From: Lodewijk <lodew...@effeietsanders.org> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use > Message-ID: > < > cacf6bevoffq8pzguiahyv7hg3dk52wgmgsa5v_l1+r4ax9k...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Yeah, I don't guess this is a matter of whether it is technically possible, > but rather if the community would like to allow such functionality (what > would then stop a troll to selectively disable all admins to watch his/her > talkpage?) > > Lodewijk > > 2016-05-27 6:31 GMT+02:00 James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com>: > > > Talk pages are for communication. If people were unable to watch these > > pages they would become less useful. > > > > J > > > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkb...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > "Talkpage watcher" would do fine. > > > > > > Newyorkbrad/IBM > > > > > > On 5/26/16, David Goodman <dgge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > talk-page stalker is not necessarily an unfriendly term. It's meant > as > > an > > > > explanation for why the person saw the question, and posted there. > But > > > > perhaps we could find a better term for this, as stalker does have > > > > unfortunate connotations. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Trillium Corsage < > > > trillium2...@yandex.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> My English Wikipedia talkpage is watchlisted by a surprising number > of > > > >> users that I have no cooperative or friendly editing relationship > > with. > > > >> Some of them refer to themselves as "talkpage stalkers." Might it be > > > >> possible for a user to prohibit such persons from watchlisting him > or > > > her? > > > >> If it's not possible to selectively prohibit, how about an on/off > > > switch, > > > >> i.e. *no-one* may watchlist an editor's individual talkpage. > > > >> > > > >> Trillium Corsage > > > >> > > > >> 21.05.2016, 02:20, "Johan Jönsson" <email clipped>: > > > >> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> > > > wrote: > > > >> >> Hi everyone, > > > >> >> > > > >> >> WMF's Community Tech team is starting to work on a Cross-wiki > > > >> watchlist, > > > >> >> one of the top 10 wishes in the Community Wishlist Survey that > we > > > >> conducted > > > >> >> at the end of last year. [1] > > > >> >> > > > >> >> We're running a survey on how people use their watchlists, to > help > > > >> inform > > > >> >> our work. > > > >> > > > > >> > Hi everyone, > > > >> > > > > >> > A couple of months ago, the Community Tech team ran a survey to > > gather > > > >> > information on how Wikimedians use their watchlists. You can see > the > > > >> > results here: > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Survey_results > > > >> > > > > >> > If you're interested, there are also some very early and rough > > > >> > wireframes available on the project page: > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Current_work.2C_for_discussion > > > >> > > > > >> > //Johan Jönsson > > > >> > -- > > > >> > > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > > > >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > >> > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > >> > Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > , > > > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > >> Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > , > > > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > David Goodman > > > > > > > > DGG at the enWP > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > James Heilman > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > > www.opentextbookofmedicine.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 146, Issue 90 > ******************************************** > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
