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. > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:57:17 +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://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? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l