Author: funnyman3595

Description:
Mediawiki should have a way to watch a single section of a large article. For
talk pages and pages like Wikipedia's Village Pump and Reference Desk, it's
often the case that a user only cares about a single section. Trying to keep up
with that section by watching the entire page is impractical, as a large number
of edits may be made to the page in other sections, which the user doesn't care
about. This creates both false positives (as the user investigates a change
only to find it wasn't to his section) and false negatives (as the user doesn't
notice a change to his section due to another edit shortly after).

Additionally the time between addition and archiving on some of these pages may
be low enough that the user returns in a few days to see if there are any
responses, only to have lost the section to the archiving system. It would
therefore be optimal to have moved sections retain the list of users watching
them, or failing that, for the user to be able to quickly determine who removed
a section and navigate to that point in their edit history, since the addition
to the archive should be nearby. The first method would probably require adding
a move section feature, while the second is just a slight expansion of the
watchlist (and possibly the user contributions), provided that the user was able
to watch a section and not the entire article.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement