Editing raw watchlist (when the watchlist is big) fails with an error
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	Mohammed_Sadat_WMDE
	Nov 21 2022, 9:27 AM

Description

As an editor I want to raw edit my watchlist.

Problem:
When the watchlist is very long, I get the following error:

Request from 94.251.224.152 via cp3056 cp3056, Varnish XID 151049881
Upstream caches: cp3056 int
Error: 500, Internal Server Error at Sat, 05 Nov 2022 22:32:49 GMT

Acceptance criteria:
Watchlist can be edited raw regardless of the size.

Open questions:

At what point does this problem begin to occur? (what constitutes a "big" watchlist)

See previous discussion:
Wikidata:Report a technical problem#My Watchlist

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Mentioned Here: T41510: Opening Special:EditWatchlist with a large watchlist hits server timeout (Create watchlist pager)

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Mohammed_Sadat_WMDE created this task.Nov 21 2022, 9:27 AM

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Reedy closed this task as a duplicate of T41510: Opening Special:EditWatchlist with a large watchlist hits server timeout (Create watchlist pager).Nov 21 2022, 9:41 AM

@Reedy T41510 is about Special:EditWatchlist, this task is about Special:EditWatchlist/raw. While the root cause may be the same, the solution is likely going to be different, as a pager is probably not a good solution for a page like Special:EditWatchlist/raw that contains a single huge <textarea>.

Restricted Application added a project: Growth-Team. · View Herald TranscriptNov 21 2022, 7:59 PM

There's no reason you couldn't use a pager to populate a <textarea>.

kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.Nov 23 2022, 10:30 AM

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