This is the document that started the whole Watchlist discussion on Android. To keep track of its development, move over to Phabricator: T264017.

What is a Watchlist?

A watchlist is a page which allows any logged-in user to keep a list of ”watched” pages and to generate a list of recent changes made to those pages (and their associated talk pages). In this way, you can keep track of and react to what's happening to pages you have created or are otherwise interested in.

👉 Learn more on Help:Watchlist

Why are we doing this?

Why are we introducing the Watchlist on Android? The Android team is focusing on building a stronger ecosystem for editors. If we enable editors (beginner and advanced) to communicate with each other with less friction, it will cultivate a more widespread ecosystem and a better community. Advanced editors can guide beginners in making good edits and a larger community of regular readers can give feedback on article talk pages. As part of these efforts, Wikipedia Watchlist is introduced on Android.

User story

As a novice editor (or an experienced editor) of an article I care about, I'd like to monitor the article for changes, including:

• Good-quality edits by other editors, so that I could thank those editors for their contributions.
• Good-faith edits that don't quite make the grade, so that I could give feedback to those editors to improve their edits.
• Bad-faith edits (vandalism, misinformation, etc.) that I could revert.

What are the key questions to answer?