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As a WP editor I want to be able to manually set-up a limited timeframe to keep an article on my watchlist so that I don’t need to remove it manually. Version 1.0: set-up a limited timeframe (view: edit normally), change the timeframe (view: edit normally), overview over timeframes (view: edit normally). Version 2.0: set-up limited timeframe when adding article to watchlist (view:article), overview over timeframes and ability to change them (view: watchlist), warning about articles to be removed in 3 or less days (view: watchlist) See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20#M.C3.B6glichkeit.2C_dass_ein_Artikel_nach_Ablauf_einer_einstellbaren_Zeitspanne_automatisch_wieder_von_der_Beobachtungsliste_gestrichen_wird (in German). **Further details:** Some ideas for this feature were discussed here T8964. I merged it. **Effort: ** **Needs to be discussed with:** This is part of the [Top 20 wishes of the German community](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20).

**Survey: ** 2013 **Original wish (German): ** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Beobachtungsliste **Update sites on-wiki:** - English: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes#Watchlist_Expiry - German:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20#M.C3.B6glichkeit.2C_dass_ein_Artikel_nach_Ablauf_einer_einstellbaren_Zeitspanne_automatisch_wieder_von_der_Beobachtungsliste_gestrichen_wird **User Stories:** Here's the proposal from 2015, contributed by User:Derek Andrews: "I would like to be able to set an expiry time for watchlist items, of say one week or one month. There are many pages that I do maintenance on or repair vandalism that I would like to watch for a brief period of time, but have no long term interest in. The UI I envisage would just have additional tick boxes: watch this page indefinitely, watch for one week; watch for one month." Other reasons for short-term page watching: - Watch a talk page of a user that you message for a response for a limited time - Watch a page for a specified amount of time after a page protection expires - Watch a page for a short amount of time after reverting vandalism on the page. - Watch a time boxed discussion page for the length of the timebox **Scoping by TCB-Team:** Version 1.0: set-up a limited timeframe (view: edit normally), change the timeframe (view: edit normally), overview over timeframes (view: edit normally). Version 2.0: set-up limited timeframe when adding article to watchlist (view:article), overview over timeframes and ability to change them (view: watchlist), warning about articles to be removed in 3 or less days (view: watchlist) **Related tickets:** {T8964} was merged into this one

As a WP editor I want to be able to manually set-up a limited timeframe to keep an article on my watchlist so that I don’t need to remove it manually.**Survey: ** 2013 Version 1.0: set-up a limited timeframe (view: edit normally), change the timeframe (view: edit normally), overview over timeframes (view: edit normally). Version 2.0: set-up limited timeframe when adding article to watchlist (view:article), overview over timeframes and ability to change them (view: watchlist), warning about articles to be removed in 3 or less days (view: watchlist) See **Original wish (German): ** https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Beobachtungsliste **Update sites on-wiki:** - English: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes#Watchlist_Expiry - German:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20#M.C3.B6glichkeit.2C_dass_ein_Artikel_nach_Ablauf_einer_einstellbaren_Zeitspanne_automatisch_wieder_von_der_Beobachtungsliste_gestrichen_wird (in German). **Further details:****User Stories:** Here's the proposal from 2015, contributed by User:Derek Andrews: Some ideas for this feature were discussed here T8964."I would like to be able to set an expiry time for watchlist items, of say one week or one month. There are many pages that I do maintenance on or repair vandalism that I would like to watch for a brief period of time, but have no long term interest in. The UI I envisage would just have additional tick boxes: watch this page indefinitely, watch for one week; I merged it.watch for one month." **Effort: **Other reasons for short-term page watching: - Watch a talk page of a user that you message for a response for a limited time - Watch a page for a specified amount of time after a page protection expires - Watch a page for a short amount of time after reverting vandalism on the page. - Watch a time boxed discussion page for the length of the timebox **Scoping by TCB-Team:** Version 1.0: set-up a limited timeframe (view: edit normally), change the timeframe (view: edit normally), overview over timeframes (view: edit normally). **Needs to be discussed with:**Version 2.0: set-up limited timeframe when adding article to watchlist (view:article), overview over timeframes and ability to change them (view: watchlist), warning about articles to be removed in 3 or less days (view: watchlist) **Related tickets:** {T8964} was merged into this one This is part of the [Top 20 wishes of the German community](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20).