Talk:Requests for comment/Watch Categorylinks

Watchlist
This seems slightly to be mixing watchlist and notices ui. If a user watches a category, shouldnt they find out about removals and additions in the watchlist, not in echo?

Do you plan to support showing who added/removed the category (i think thats impossible to do, at least in all cases, and i dont think it should be a requirement, but if you have a solution for that, that would be awesome). Bawolff (talk) 16:24, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Bawolff, since a WikiPage object is passed to the event handler, determining and displaying the corresponding author shouldn't be a problem. We need to make sure to keep the notification simple and respect the recommendation of having not more than two links in the notification (see: Echo_(Notifications)/Developer_guide). Kai Nissen (WMDE) (talk) 13:00, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * not all category change events are directly associated with an edit. Bawolff (talk) 13:22, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

The terminology was unclear, so I made it consistent. The linked page clearly asks for watchlisting (Beobachten). Notifications (enotifwatchlist) are given "for free" by the watchlist. --Nemo 14:03, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Setting
Pro But please make sure the default setting (notification via Web/Mail on/off) can be configured so that if a comunity wants to change it, it can be done without editing in the source-code. -- MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 11:09, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Since it sounds like this will be an Echo notification, that would be a simple case of altering your $wgDefaultUserOptions. -- Krenair (talk &bull; contribs) 11:16, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Finally something useful
Congratulations to WMDE for trying to work on the most crucial piece of our wikis after action=edit, the RecentChanges/Watchlist mechanism. This is the heart of wikis, where all the collaboration and activity lives. --Nemo 14:03, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Does this need to be its own extension?
Given the Echo features that you want to use (bundling is a good one, for instance), this probably can't be in MW core, but is there a reason why this should be in its own extension, rather than being part of the Echo extension? --Roan Kattouw (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 1 April 2015 (UTC)