Thread:Forum:Wiki Updates/How to fix watchlist weirdness

Since MW 1.23's release, the watchlist of everyone who edits auto-adds all pages you edit (as far as can be discerned based on reports I've gotten) and will spam emails to your email address about changes if that was enabled.

To fix this (which seems to be a default setting that will hopefully be changed in a bugfix update of the MediaWiki software, do this:


 * 1) Go to your user Preferences to the Watchlist tab.
 * 2) Find "Add pages and files I edit to my watchlist" and uncheck it.
 * 3) Edit any other settings to your liking.
 * 4) Rejoice, no more auto-added watchlist spam!

If need be, I'll file a bug report to the MediaWiki developers to patch out this behavoir in the next bugfix release, but until then, this should fix this annoying issue.

Let me know if there are still issues in the Tech Wishlist and Bug Reports Board.