Aryeh Gregor wrote: > Why do we hide Special:UnwatchedPages from regular users? Unwatched > pages are something that people should know about so they can be sure > to watch them. If no one is actively watching a page, it's more > likely that vandalism will stick around. Yes, vandals and trolls > could abuse the info, but they could abuse all sorts of other features > too, and that's not a reason to deny them to legitimate users. If > there is any such threat, then that will just encourage legitimate > users to watch the pages, thereby removing them from the list.
If the admin wants to allow it, he can enable it or publish a list of pages to watch on the Vilalge Pump. Suppose you open it. Who is more likely to start using it? People with too few watched pages or vandals? I would expect it to be the entry point the next time Fooers angry for having deleted the article about Foo decide "to take revenge". On the contrary, I don't foresee getting loads of goodwill users to watch those pages (unless it's slashdotted in a "how to vandal"). Chad wrote: > I would expect that if we changed this in core, WMF would set a default > on their end setting it to sysop-only, as it is now. The projects should > not see a change in config like that against their wishes, we agree on > that point If you make a change on default configuration that forces users to manually set it back to the previous one, you shouldn't have changed it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
