Extension:CollaborativeWatchlist

Deutsche Version

Description
The Software called Globalbeo (from globale Beobachtungsliste (global Watchlist)) allows a defined group of users ("watchers") to watch changes in defined articles. Changes which have been checked by a Watcher will not be displayed on the Globalbeo to other watchers.

Basic functions of the global Watchlist
Global Watchlists are similar to Mediawiki-Watchlists, they show changes in a list of articles. In contrast to per user watchlists of Mediawiki. The Globalbeo allows a group of users to observe changes in articles or whole categories. Therefor only one watcher is needed to check if an article has changed and then this article is removed from the Globalbeo. Double checking of articles by two ore more already trusted persons is prevented. Every watcher can log in to the Globabeo tool, they can select the watchlists belonging to them as defined by the administrator. There should be a standard watchlist for every user, that gets selected on every login.

Administration
One Wikipedia-User can create a global Watchlist and gets administration privileges for this list. As an admin he can invite (add) other users, or remove them. Further the list admin selects the articles that should be watched (including categories). He can also select various filters for the watchlists (e.g. don't show bot changes).

Functions

 * The user interface should be similar to the per user Watchlist of Mediawiki
 * The list shows changes of articles that have been previously selected by the admin
 * Articles can be marked as checked (they don't appear on the list) or flagged as "problematic" (which then would need a second user to flag the article for it to disappear from the list)
 * A link allowing the fast revert of changes is shown next to each article on the list
 * if flagged revisions are enabled, checked articles are automatically flagged if the user has the privileges.

Technical requirements
The software will be hosted on the toolserver of Wikimedia Germany (http://tools.wikimedia.de/). Changes should possibly be shown without any delay, similar to the Mediawiki Userlists.

Other
The development will be funded by Wikimedia Austria. The software will be released under an Open Source License not later than six months, after all features outlined in this document have been implemented.