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Request to clean my watchlist from articles in namespace 0 and 1
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Hi, I have 126٬344 pages in my watchlist in arwiki, I want to clear all pages with namespace 0 and 1.

My wikipeida user is : Mr. Ibrahem.
Thanks.

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Hello @Mr.Ibrahem,

Can you please connect your Phabricator account with your wiki account, so we can ensure this request is authenticated? You can do this in your Phabricator preferences, under "External Accounts".

Also, can you confirm that neither Special:EditWatchlist nor Special:EditWatchlist/raw work for you, so you can self-service this?

Thanks!

Okay MediaWiki Account connected, I waited for Special:EditWatchlist/raw to finish loading but each time the browser crashed and the page did not finish loading.

Also lets clear wikidata watchlist in the same namespaces, I have 336,522 there. Thank you.

yeah, Special:EditWatchlist nor Special:EditWatchlist/raw shouldn't be used here, it'll kill the database.

Martin is a volunteer who might not have time for it. If he doesn't get to it before I'm back (March 27th), I'll take over.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-03-27T21:24:56Z] <Amir1> start of watchlist clean up in arwiki (T328501)

Ladsgroup claimed this task.

Martin was busy so I did it.

Thank you so much.
Can you please do the same in wikidata? I have 336,522 there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2023-04-11T09:27:07Z] <Amir1> start of watchlist clean up of a user in wikidatawiki (T328501)

Done:

wikiadmin2023@10.192.48.84(wikidatawiki)> select count(*) from watchlist where wl_user = 3361 and wl_namespace in (0, 1);
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|        0 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.001 sec)