Help:Watching pages/id

Fitur memantau halaman membolehkan pengguna yang sedang masuk log manapun untuk memiliki daftar halaman yang "dipantau" dan untuk diberitahukan mengenai suntingan terbaru di halaman-halaman tersebut.

MediaWiki tidak membolehkan orang-orang "memiliki" suatu halaman; namun, fitur "daftar pantauan", beserta kemampuan mengembalikan perubahan, membantu pengguna yang tertarik untuk tetap terlibat dalam halaman-halaman tertentu tanpa kekurangan dari memberikan seseorang kendali penuh terhadap suatu halaman.

Memilih halaman mana saja yang dipantau
Hanya halaman yang tidak dihasilkan secara dinamis saja yang bisa dipantau.

Halaman selalu dipantau bersama dengan halaman pembicaraannya. Semua penambahan ke dan penghapusan dari daftar halaman yang dipantau berlaku pada kombinasi halaman non-pembicaraan / halaman pembicaraan: tidak mungkin hanya memantau salah satu saja.


 * Ketima membaca sebuah halaman:


 * Bintang putih (atau pranala "" di kulit monobook), terletak di bagian atas halaman, menambahkan halaman tersebut ke daftar pantauan Anda, dan mengubah bintangnya menjadi biru (atau dalam kulit monobook mengubah pranla menjadi "").


 * atau akan ditampilkan di atas halaman, dan "" berubah menjadi  atau sebaliknya. Bergantung pada peramban, ini dilakukan tanpa memuat ulang seluruh halaman, menggunakan AJAX dengan ajaxwatch.js.


 * Ketika menyimpan sebuah halaman:


 * Ketika menyimpan halaman yang disunting, status pemantauan baru (pantau atau jangan pantau) ditentukan oleh kotak "".


 * Jika Anda mengaktifkan preferensi pengguna "", kotak di halaman penyuntingannya akan dicentang secara otomatis, jadi jika tidak dihapus centangnya sebelum menyimpan, halamannya akan dipantau ketika menyimpan. Pilihan lainnya adalah
 * - (jika yang sebelumnya dicentang yang ini tidak perlu dicentang, karena pembuatan dihitung sebagai suntingan juga)


 * Menyunting seluruh daftar:


 * Pranala spesifik untuk 'Sunting daftar pantauan Anda' disediakan di atas halaman Special:Watchlist


 * Kemudian terdapat beberapa pranala tambahan yang tersedia di atas halaman Special:EditWatchlist:


 * Special:EditWatchlist memberikan daftar lengkap halaman yang dipantau (termasuk halaman pembicaraan). Memilih satu atau beberapa kotak centang dan kemudian menekan tombol "" akan menghapus halaman yang dipilih dari daftar.


 * Special:EditWatchlist/raw menyediakan area teks berisi daftar halaman yang dipantau (tanpa mendaftarkan halaman pembicaraannya), dengan satu judul di setiap baris, diurutkan berdasarkan nomor ruang nama dan urutan abjad. Ini memungkinkan untuk menyunting daftarnya secara langsung, menyalinnya ke penyunting eksternal, atau menggantinya dengan yang dibuat di tempat lain. Duplikat akan dihapus secara otomatis ketika menyimpan.


 * Hapus daftar pantauan untuk mengosongkan daftar halaman yang dipantau.


 * Tampilkan perubahan terkait untuk menunjukkan status halaman yang dipantau

Daftar pantauan
Ketika pengguna masuk log, setiap halaman memiliki pranala ke daftar pantauan pengguna, yang bisa juga diakses melalui pranala Special:Watchlist. Halaman ini menampilkan daftar semua halaman terpantau yang baru diubah, dipisahkan berdasarkan hari, diurutkan menurut waktu penyuntingan.

Setiap baris menunjukkan rincian setiap suntingan: apakah suntingannya kecil (') atau tidak, apakah dilakukan oleh bot (') atau tidak, waktu suntingan, pranala ke halaman, perbedaan antara revisi sekarang dan yang sebelumnya, riwarat halaman, perubahan banyak byte halaman, nama pengguna yang menyunting, halaman pembicaraan penggunanya, kontribusi pengguna itu, dan ringkasan suntingan. Bergantung pada konfigurasi situs, nama halaman ditebalkan apabila halamannya telah diubah sejak terakhir kali sang pengguna membuka halaman itu (saat sedang masuk log).

Secara teknis, daftar pantauan adalah cara lain untuk menyaring perubahan terbaru. Entrinya berasal dari tabel sehingga terbatas pada suntingan yang tidak lebih lama daripada  (30 haris dalam kebanyakan proyek WMF).

Pilihan
Anda bisa memilih untuk menyembunyikan atau menampilkan jenis-jenis suntingan berikut, menggunakan pranala yang sesuai: suntingan kecil, suntingan bot, suntingan diri sendiri. Ini juga bisa diatur di preferensi sebagai pilihan awal ketika pengguna datang ke halaman Special:Watchlist.

Pilihan preferensi lainnya, walaupun dinamakan "Jumlah hari maksimum yang ditampilkan di daftar pantauan", hanya mengatur nilai awal untuk periode waktu perubahan yang ditampilkan. Periode ini bisa dimudah dengan pranala yang sesuai.

Terdapat kotak drop-down yang memungkinkan melihat perubahan hanya di satu ruang nama tertentu.

Tidak seperti perubahan terbaru, daftar pantauan tidak bisa menyembunyikan suntingan berdasarkan pengguna yang masuk/keluar log, tidak ada pranala untuk menampilkan banyak suntingan tertentu saja, dan tidak ada cara untuk menampilkan semua kecuali satu ruang nama.

Daftar pantauan sederhana
Secara bawaan, daftar pantauan hanya menampilkan suntingan terakhir di masing-masing halaman yang dipantau.

There are two possible problems if a page had a non-minor recent edit, but the last edit was marked as minor:


 * non-minor edits will not be shown. Since one is typically interested in all changes since one last checked, in this case the history of the page needs to be checked.
 * if watchlist is set not to show minor changes, then the page will not appear in the watchlist at all.

Many experienced users prefer to use Expanded Watchlist.

Expanded watchlist
With the preference "" the watchlist will show all recent edits, listed in chronological order.

In this case the preference "", which toggles enhanced recent changes, also affects the watchlist the same way: recent changes of watched pages are grouped by day, and within a day by page.

Another preference option is "". A site can limit the maximum value for this option, for example the maximum seems to be 1000 on WMF projects.

To show pages with older edits, view the changes by namespaces or use the non-enhanced watchlist, and/or reduce the number of watched pages.

Other effects of watching a page
The watchlist is only one of the features with regard to watching pages; even without ever using it, specifying pages to watch is useful.

Recent and related changes, page history
In Recent Changes, Enhanced Recent Changes, and Related Changes, watched pages are bolded.

If one views the history of a watched page directly, without first viewing the page, the edit at the top (the most recent one) may be marked using update marker ; this applies if the edit was made by someone else and you have not viewed the page (while logged in) since it was made. This is actually enabled together with email notification.

Email notification

 * See also for the 2013 extension.

From MediaWiki 1.5, you can get an e-mail after a watched page has been edited by somebody else. This will not be repeated until you view the page. Viewing a diff or the page history is not enough. Note that you have to be logged in when viewing the page, otherwise you will not be notified of further changes. Optionally this notification system can ignore minor changes (this is the default).

Whether the feature is enabled on a wiki can be seen in the preferences: if it is, the will be one of the options of the main section. The notifications for user talk edits are enabled by another preference option.

Having a separate email for every edited page that one likes to watch in the sense of the other watch features, may be too much. New features are being proposed and developed to deal with this: the option to have e-mails sent, after a delay, with a list of edited pages, and/or the possibility to specify a subset of watched pages for e-mail notification. See also.

For the latter, as a workaround, one may be tempted to log in under a different username just to specify a different (typically smaller) watchlist for e-mail notification. However, after viewing a page under one username, one would have to clear the notification flag for that page for the other username too.

Technical details
To enable it on a wiki, is set to true, and it still depends on preference settings. The email-message is the. See Email notification. Since May 2011 the feature is enabled on all Wikimedia projects for the user talk notifications, and since April 2012 for watchlist edits too. From early May 2012, the preference for edited pages to be added to watchlist is the default.

User preferences
The following options are (or can be) available in Preferences >> User Profile tab



Common misunderstandings
E-mail notification has many settings, so if you think you've missed something check them carefully.


 * The notifications about a page that "has been created" may be about any log action (such as protection) on the page, see T16901 and sons.
 * If you don't click the link in the notification, you won't receive it next time. Look for bolded items in your Special:Watchlist: they're pages you've not yet seen after recent changes and you won't be notified about them (note: your wiki may have hidden this essential highlighting feature).
 * Edits by authorised bots sometimes don't cause an email notification even if you've configured your preferences to receive one for that kind of action: namely, if they make a minor edit on your talk and you've set (only?) "". This behavior is not documented nor configurable and has some bugs; see T40874.

See also the list of known bugs.

What you cannot watch
Watchlist only detects actual edits to the wikitext of the page.


 * Included pages:
 * Changes to transcluded pages can also change the way the watched page is rendered, however these changes do not appear in the watchlist. For more information see Help:Page history#Linking to a specific version of a page. One may choose to watch all the templates used, and the templates used by these templates, etc.


 * Actions will not appear in watchlist:
 * Note that after the move both the old and the new name are watched.
 * Note that after the move both the old and the new name are watched.


 * Some projects have special templates (such as sprotected) that should be added to protected pages, thus partly solving the problem.
 * Some projects have special templates (such as sprotected) that should be added to protected pages, thus partly solving the problem.


 * Some projects might have a policy to add a deletion notice to the page first, or even to notify main authors on their talk pages.
 * One can also periodically check Special:Watchlist/edit page and inspect all broken (red) links.
 * One can also periodically check Special:Watchlist/edit page and inspect all broken (red) links.


 * Images and categories
 * Watching an image or a category means watching only the editable part. Watchlist will not show uploads of new versions of images. It is not possible to watch a category in the sense of being notified if pages are added or removed. With "related changes," additions to categories can be detected; for removals, one has to watch all pages in the category (also see Help:Category#Detection of additions to a category).

Watching a nonexistent page
One can watch a nonexistent page. This page will appear in the watchlist changes when somebody creates it.

For example, if you watch a page that does not yet have a talk page, you will be notified when someone starts a new discussion on the talk page.

You can watch a page even if neither the content page nor the talk page exists. To do that, go to the page's URL, either by typing the URL directly or following a (broken) link, and then press "Watch" (depending on the skin you may have to press Cancel before getting the link Watch).

Page moves and the watchlist
If a page you have watched is moved to a new title, the new title will be automatically added to your watchlist. Even if the page is later moved back, the new title will remain in your watchlist along with the old one.

Even if the new title is deleted after the page has been moved back, a note about the deletion will appear on your watchlist and the title will remain in your list of watched pages. If you notice mysterious nonexistent pages appearing on your watchlist, this is the most likely explanation.

Related changes feature

 * Main article: w:Help:Public watchlist

The "Related changes" can be used to set up watchlist-like functionality, as explained below.

Pages with links (possibly specially created for this purpose, e.g. as subpages of one's user page) can be used with Related Changes as a collection of separate "watchlists". Note however that unlike My Watchlist, Related Changes does not automatically include talk pages; to watch also the corresponding talk pages, links to them also have to be in the page on which Related Changes is applied. If the links to the talk pages are put just for this purpose, a blank space as link label can be used, which makes the link invisible and ineffective, except for Related Changes. Also, using Related Changes there is not the convenience of pressing a "watch" link to add the current page to the list of "watched pages".

Note that Related Changes does not detect an edit in the page itself and its talk page. Either include a self-link and a link to the talk page in the page, or put the page in another "special watchlist", or in one's standard watchlist.

Such pages can use the template mechanism to include other pages. However, see Pollution of categories.

Watching pages in a category by applying Related Changes to the category has a major drawback: removal of a page from the category is not detected.

An advantage of using Related Changes as alternative for the list of watched pages is that a revision history of the page(s) with links is available, while the system does not keep a record of pages that one has watched. However, Special:Watchlist/raw allows storage of the list: locally, or in a user subpage on the wiki.

If privacy is a concern, an advantage of the watchlist feature (if the list is not stored in a page on the wiki) is that it does not publicly reveal one's interest in a page (if one does not edit it). See also below.

CSS
As an alternative or in addition to using the watchlist feature, one can also define a user style for links to selected pages, putting in one's CSS a list of lines like:

a[title ="pagename"] {color: white; background: red; font-size: 150% }

This works in Opera, but not in Internet Explorer.

On the (Enhanced) Recent Changes page it works like the bolding feature mentioned above, but it is more versatile, e.g. allowing extra emphasis on pages one is very interested in, or different styles for different categories of interesting pages. Furthermore, it also works on user contributions pages, and on regular pages (also for piped links, but not for indirect links through a redirect). It also applies, less usefully, for the section editing links in the page itself.

To highlight links to the given page also from other websites, including interlanguage links, use instead of the above:

a[href ="full URL "] { .. }

Note that the full URL is needed, even to highlight links from the same project, even though the HTML code uses the relative URL /wiki/pagename.

Privacy of watchlists
Ordinary users or administrators cannot tell what is in your watchlist, or who is watching any particular page. Developers who have access to the servers that hold the Wikipedia database can figure out this kind of information. Publicly available database dumps do not include this kind of information.