Number of page watchers in pageinfo action is wrong
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	eranroz
	May 21 2016, 10:13 AM

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Number of watchers as appear in page info isn't equal to number of watchers as appear in the API.
It seems that the API gives the true result and the action=info is false.

Source	number of page watchers
https://he.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=אבוגידה&action=info&uselang=en	0
new mw.Api().get({'action':'query', 'prop':'info', titles: 'אבוגידה', inprop:'watchers' })	2

I do have unwatchedpages right in hewiki

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eranroz created this task.May 21 2016, 10:13 AM

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The numbers on action=info are cached for 30 days (or the next edit or the next purge). Do a action=purge and than look at action=info, maybe than the value is correct

Purge doesn't change it, but empty edit does.

I'm OK with closing it as invalid if it is documented somewhere [where? didn't find it in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_information ]

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DannyS712 mentioned this in T268386: Create #mediawiki-actions component.Nov 21 2020, 7:30 PM

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Page_information&diff=prev&oldid=6493973

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