Wikipedia:Special pages bug reports: Difference between revisions

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::This was my fault. With the introduction of the new database schema we introduced a new column that had to be filled with a new value. I forgot that setting this value automatically updates the timestamp of the article. So this is not a bug in the software but in the procedure for moving to the new database schema. -- [[user:Jan Hidders|Jan Hidders]] 2002 Feb 26

'''Namespaces and watchlists don't mix very well now'''

My watchlist now classifies pages with namespaces together with the normal form of the pages under the date and time list. This isn't very useful.

The watchlist also lists the namespaced page under its own proper time, which is useful. This does lead to the humorous result that [[Talk:Main Page]] is listed twice in a row in my watchlist right now, since among the pages in my watchlist, changes to [[Main Page]] and to [[Talk:Main Page]] occur right next to each other, as things are now.

When I add a page to my watchlist, the software brings me back to the page that I just added -- great. But now when I add a page with a namespace, I come back to the unnamespaced version, which is not very nice -- and quite disconcerting when that unnamespaced version doesn't even exist!

Now, what do you suppose the result to my watchlist is when I add a page with a namespace that doesn't have an unnamespaced version? (such as this very page). It shows up in my talklist under the unnamespaced name, in the list of "non-existing [sic] articles" that I'm watching. This is completely useless.

This all seems to be a result of implementing the feature that putting a page on the watchlist also puts all of that page's namespaced compatriots on the watchlist. This is a great idea, for the reasons listed in [[Wikipedia:Feature requests]], but I don't think that it was implemented very well -- so much so that I prefer it the way that it was before.

-- [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]] 2002/05/15

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