Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Multiple Watchlists

When you click the “my watchlist” link, you go to your one and only “official” watchlist, and the accompanying report (standard, expanded, or enhanced). But you’re not constrained to a single watchlist. For example, you could have a watchlist for articles you’ve created, one for editors you’re watching for signs of repeated vandalism, and one for group of articles in a wikiproject you’re working on, plus your “official” watchlist. Additional watchlists aren’t quite as easy to create and maintain as your regular watchlist, but if you’re watching a lot of pages, the extra organizational power may be worth the extra bother.

Creating Additional Watchlists

Creating a second (or third or fourth) watchlist is a two-step process: Create a subpage (see Creating Your Personal Sandbox); then add wikilinks for the pages of interest. You can add wikilinks in a number of ways. For example, you can add them by editing your raw watchlist (Removing Pages from Your Watchlist).

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Additional watchlists are sometimes called “public” watchlists because other editors can view them.

Figure 6-10 shows a subpage set up for an additional watchlist. If you watch pages on additional watchlists like this one, then you can remove them from your regular watchlist. You can, for example, shorten that watchlist to the absolutely most critical pages to monitor, and use your additional watchlists to monitor less-important articles as time permits.

Figure 6-10. Here’s a subpage set up as a second watchlist. ...