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Watching (only) categorization (additions and removals) of an arbitrary category
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Watchlist can show you all category changes of a watched category. What I really miss is a possibility to only watch additions and removals of an arbitrary category (I don't want to add a category to my watchlist to see recent changes).

Using RelatedChanges/RecentChangesLinked is not useful because it shows only additions because when a page is removed from the category, it isn't linked anymore, and there is no option to have only categorization changes shown (this is now possible with the modern RC UI).

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Aklapper renamed this task from Watching (only) categorization of an arbitrary category to Watching (only) categorization (additions and removals) of an arbitrary category.Mar 17 2016, 10:09 AM

User:Nardog/CatChangeLinker user script by @Nardog displays recent category additions and removals while viewing the category page. Ideally, this should be provided by MediaWiki itself.

@SD0001 You mean CatChangesViewer. CatChangeLinker is a tiny script that essentially fixes T148533 and T270662.

It's not. That task is about a category addition/removal not showing if the category page itself was edited later and "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" is not checked.

(ETA: Turns out I'd written the same thing already at T130888#9572743.)

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I'm declining this task as we don't have any plans to pick up the work.

@jsn.sherman Understandable if ModTools doesn't plan to pick up the work; but, unless this is something that the team has explicitly decided shouldn't happen, should(n't) this task be left open in case someone else wants to submit a patch for it? /genq

@jsn.sherman Understandable if ModTools doesn't plan to pick up the work; but, unless this is something that the team has explicitly decided shouldn't happen, should(n't) this task be left open in case someone else wants to submit a patch for it? /genq

Yes, I was in error here, and I apologize.

Yes, I was in error here, and I apologize.

No worries :)