Auto-refresh on watchlist
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	Oct 9 2005, 5:12 AM

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Author: marudubshinki

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I often use FireFox for editing on Wikipedia; thusly, I go up my watchlist, opening up dozens of tabs. I then go through them all. All this time, my internet usage is minimal, and my watchlist is increasingly stale. It would be nice if an option to add an autorefresh tage to watchlists were possible; I do not think this will be a bandwidth problem as watchlists are not large pages,
and they would only need to be refreshed every tens of minutes, and most users will never leave a watchlist open that long regardless.

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Catrope	T181193 [EPIC] Graduate the New Filters UX on Watchlist out of beta on all wikis
		Resolved		None	T5658 Auto-refresh on watchlist

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 8:51 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Watchlist.

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• bzimport created this task.Oct 9 2005, 5:12 AM

gangleri wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)

I do not think this will be a bandwidth problem ...

It probably can become a database resource problem especially on hours with
heavy load / many enquiries.

robchur wrote:

I will have a quick look at the schema and work out whether or not it would be a
large query. I guess if all users' watchlists are updating automatically, then
we will have more queries, so in the long run, it might well be an expensive
feature to add, but we'll see.

ezyang wrote:

With Firefox, you can use ReloadEvery to emulate this functionality.

Changed component to "Watchlist"

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matmarex mentioned this in T119322: Changes from T50615 to Special:Watchlist remove necessary options and decrease usability .Dec 4 2015, 3:55 PM

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Theopolisme/Scripts/ajaxWatchlist.js
and consider adding a mw.hook for when the page content is refreshed so that scripts can use the new list as wanted.

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