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Improve "Number of page watchers visiting recent edits" MediaWiki info action label
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pageinfo-visiting-watchers
https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/2239e493/languages/i18n/en.json#L2597

"Number of page watchers visiting recent edits" doesn't really make much sense.

Could we do "Number of recently active page watchers"?

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A code comment in InfoAction.php reads Number of page watchers who also visited a "recent" edit. I like that. :-)

From indefinite to indicative? Sure.

Change 224293 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nemo bis):
Use finite verb (indicative) in pageinfo-visiting-watchers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/224293

Change 224293 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use finite verb (indicative) in pageinfo-visiting-watchers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/224293