Thread:Feedback/Integrated watchlists for all Wikimedia projects

Separating LiquidThreads from watchlists is not a good idea in my opinion. People are asking for integrated watchlists, and do not want talk pages and talk threads pulled out of existing watchlists, and only available to be watched in Special:NewMessages. That should only be a secondary point of access. Integrated watchlists are the future, and LiquidThreads needs to be integrated into the main access point of watchlists.

Integrated watchlists would greatly increase the number of people editing other projects such as (why don't w: and :en: wikilinks go to the right place?) en:Wikibooks, en:Wikimedia Commons, en:Wiktionary, en:Wikisource, en:Wikiquote, en:Wikinews, en:Wikiversity, en:Wikijunior, en:Wikispecies, and additional projects. There are many proposed projects that integrated watchlists could help. See: meta:Category:Proposed projects and Proposals for new projects. These projects are not being done because there is not enough participation in (and thus donations for) existing projects. So new projects aren't started. If people could have some integrated watchlists set up the way they like them, then there would be more participation, growth, and donations.

People could select which watchlists to unify, and which ones to keep separate. People could have more than one integrated watchlist. Many new English-speaking editors (less than 5 edits a month) quit because there is little room for new interesting articles on English Wikipedia. People can't be bothered to open multiple watchlists, especially new editors who barely understand watchlists, signatures, time stamps, etc.. Other Wikimedia projects have a great need for editors (new and old), and a wide range of topics to cover. Plus there are the meta, strategy, and other peripheral wikis, and their watchlists. --Timeshifter (talk &bull; contribs) 19:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)