Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist and Add pages I create and files I upload to my watchlist

I wonder if we should create a config for this, so certain sites can set this as a default disabled, and users on those large wikis (Eg: wikidata) would need to optin

Fairly regularly we get people reporting errors about their watchlist not loading.

Incomplete list for the records: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=315603,309446,265347,95888,47380,68212,69123,41510#R

Server-side request: Create a ticket tagged with Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run and asking folks to run mwscript runBatchedQuery.php --wiki wikidatabasename "DELETE FROM watchlist WHERE wl_user = 9999999999 LIMIT 5000;" ?

In T315627#8168382, @Aklapper wrote:

Fairly regularly we get people reporting errors about their watchlist not loading.

Incomplete list for the records: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=315603,309446,265347,95888,47380,68212,69123,41510#R

Server-side request: Create a ticket tagged with Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run and asking folks to run mwscript runBatchedQuery.php --wiki wikidatabasename "DELETE FROM watchlist WHERE wl_user = 9999999999 LIMIT 5000;" ?

If we go that route, a dedicated maintenance script might be less error-prone.

In T315627#8188427, @kostajh wrote:

In T315627#8168382, @Aklapper wrote:

Fairly regularly we get people reporting errors about their watchlist not loading.

Incomplete list for the records: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=315603,309446,265347,95888,47380,68212,69123,41510#R

Server-side request: Create a ticket tagged with Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run and asking folks to run mwscript runBatchedQuery.php --wiki wikidatabasename "DELETE FROM watchlist WHERE wl_user = 9999999999 LIMIT 5000;" ?

If we go that route, a dedicated maintenance script might be less error-prone.

I do hope you are not suggesting that the script must be run without exceptions. Some users may be content with the situation, if they know that they can edit the watchlist in the raw form.

In T315627#8189068, @Michgrig wrote:

In T315627#8188427, @kostajh wrote:

In T315627#8168382, @Aklapper wrote:

Fairly regularly we get people reporting errors about their watchlist not loading.

Incomplete list for the records: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?ids=315603,309446,265347,95888,47380,68212,69123,41510#R

Server-side request: Create a ticket tagged with Wikimedia-maintenance-script-run and asking folks to run mwscript runBatchedQuery.php --wiki wikidatabasename "DELETE FROM watchlist WHERE wl_user = 9999999999 LIMIT 5000;" ?

If we go that route, a dedicated maintenance script might be less error-prone.

I do hope you are not suggesting that the script must be run without exceptions. Some users may be content with the situation, if they know that they can edit the watchlist in the raw form.

I'm pretty sure @kostajh is saying if this becomes a common workflow (people requesting their watchlists to be emptied), we make a robust way of doing it (ie a dedicated maintenance script), rather than something very potentially susceptible to user error (typo in the SQL uery could lead to bigger issues).

He is not suggesting we en masse remove peoples watchlists.