Thread:Talk:Summer of Code 2013/List of project ideas/reply (22)

I would love to see the watchlist system fixed so it can support categories.

TWISI, There should be two levels or options for watching a category:
 * 1) being notified whenever a page either adds or removes the watched category
 * 2) being notified for any change in a page belonging to the category.

currently, watching a category basically means you'll be notified for any change to the category page itself, which is not what a reasonable person would expect when they add the category to their watchlist (of course, after some experience most of us realize that watching a category is useless. there are some gadgets floating around that will add all the pages in a category to the user's watchlist, but this is not what i'm talking about above).

it is my understanding that such projects were stated and then abandoned (i might have misunderstood), and i think there are some extensions that try to address the category/watchlist junction, but as far as i saw, none of them did "The Right Thing" &#x2122;.

peace.