Thread:Talk:New editor engagement/Watchlists/reply (14)

Perhaps part of the reason this idea keeps being put off, despite being much requested, is that cross-wiki code of any kind seems rare. Commons and WikiData transclusion, and SUL code, are exceptions. Ideally we would have more than a patch job for a single feature. The APIs should be expanded to include any cross-wiki calls for a cluster of related wikis. But a cluster of wikis sharing users, templates, media, and topics: these should not be treated like two totally unrelated wikis.

Cluster-level APIs might eventually touch on: A roadmap for this kind of support for cluster-level development might make it easier to see how to globalize watchlists and RC.
 * login, user prefs, user rights
 * transclusion, tracking changes to shared files
 * RC and its filters, other overview pages
 * translation, workflow (marking pages as stale when those they depend on are changed or deleted)