Multiple Watchlists
When you click the âmy watchlistâ link, you go to your one and only âofficialâ watchlist, and the accompanying report (standard, expanded, or enhanced). But youâre not constrained to a single watchlist. For example, you could have a watchlist for articles youâve created, one for editors youâre watching for signs of repeated vandalism, and one for group of articles in a wikiproject youâre working on, plus your âofficialâ watchlist. Additional watchlists arenât quite as easy to create and maintain as your regular watchlist, but if youâre watching a lot of pages, the extra organizational power may be worth the extra bother.
Creating Additional Watchlists
Creating a second (or third or fourth) watchlist is a two-step process: Create a subpage (see Creating Your Personal Sandbox); then add wikilinks for the pages of interest. You can add wikilinks in a number of ways. For example, you can add them by editing your raw watchlist (Removing Pages from Your Watchlist).
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Additional watchlists are sometimes called âpublicâ watchlists because other editors can view them.
Figure 6-10 shows a subpage set up for an additional watchlist. If you watch pages on additional watchlists like this one, then you can remove them from your regular watchlist. You can, for example, shorten that watchlist to the absolutely most critical pages to monitor, and use your additional watchlists to monitor less-important articles as time permits.
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