Watch Analytics needs a maintenance page

[krisfield]

It would be very useful to have a special page for WatchAnalytics which allowed Admins to perform maintenance task. Some ideas of useful tasks would be:

• Admins need a way to remove a watched pages for a user account that is no longer active to prevent WatchAnlytics numbers from being misrepresented

• Temporarily turn off WatchAnalytics so if you are adding users as watchers to multiple pages (~100s) it doesn't flood them with PendingReviews

[jamesmontalvo3]

Adding users as watchers doesn't make them have reviews. Only adding them as watchers and then editing the page(s) gives them reviews.

I'm a little torn on removing pages from someone's watchlist. Seems like if they come back they may want those pages back on their list. Perhaps moving the watches into "watch purgatory" so they can restore them if they want?

[krisfield]

• Copy, maybe what I saw is more related to {{Copywatchers: then. I added CopyWatchers to a template so that it added watchers based on a specific page name being added to the template. When I added that page name to the template it successfully added the watchers but also gave them a pending review. That leads me to believe that CopyWatchers adds watchers to a page before the changes of that page are saved.

• Agree with categorizing watches as with something such as "Archived" based on user such that any watch with that category does not show up in watch statistics of visualization.

[jamesmontalvo3]

That's the point of Copywatchers...to make people see changes to pages related to some other page(s). So I guess what you're wanting is a way to easily apply watchers to a page based on some criteria (category, namespace, other people watching) which could potentially be a feature of WatchAnalytics.

[krisfield]

This issue has been partially completed with the addition of Special:ClearPendingReviews #79