Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Watchlists/Grouping watched pages

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Grouping watched pages

Problem: Everyone watches different pages for different reasons – some are noticeboards, some are projects to do, and some are watched for vandalism or sockpuppetry, however people with large watchlists can often forget why they watch a page. To use myself as an example, I primarily work countering spam, and many recurring sockmasters edit a large number of pages (which I watch), making it difficult to remember why I have a certain page watched, and for which sockmaster.
Proposed solution: Create a method of allowing the user to create and name watchlist groups (very similar to how filters can be created at Special:RecentChanges.) When a page is watched, there could be an option to add it to a watchlist group, similar to how you can select the duration of time to watch a page. Ideally, the user should also be able to filter their watchlist by group, and possibly assign different groups colors.
Who would benefit: Most Wikimedia users, especially anyone with a large watchlist.
More comments: I'm not massively familiar with MediaWiki, but I imagine it would involve re-purposing a lot of code from RecentChanges, especially bits surrounding the filter mechanisms.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Giraffer (talk) 23:11, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen that. I'm not proposing splitting up a watchlist or creating numerous ones, but adding the ability to "categorize" pages within it and sort by them. Giraffer (talk) 10:34, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This should be much simpler to deal with than previous requests; the work is to be done by the user themselves, putting things in the categoriesa thewy want. The basic operation of the watchlists can go on the usual way. -- if I understand this correctlyDGG (talk) 05:40, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Special:RecentChangesLinked continues to exist for this use case. --Izno (talk) 19:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe even more similar to Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Watchlists/Multiple watchlists. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 12:05, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I used UncleDouggie's smart_watchlist.js (now broken) for a while and loved it. Possible code and/or design inspiration in there. Quiddity (talk) 09:01, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Needs careful implementation bet would solve problems Keith D (talk) 19:22, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:17, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 15:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Piensaimnieks (talk) 15:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uanfala (talk) 01:18, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 08:34, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 11:54, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Titore (talk) 19:04, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nw520 (talk) 22:25, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wowzers122 (talk) 22:34, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 23:48, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 23:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JPxG (talk) 01:01, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HugoHelp (talk) 04:26, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support CRYPTNYMPH (talk) 13:54, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support AWESOMEDUDE0614 (talk) 14:58, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shooterwalker (talk) 22:18, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Glerium (talk) 12:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 14:37, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 10:28, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hampcky (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Some1 (talk) 03:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aimwin66166 (talk) 06:04, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support EN-Jungwon 10:36, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vega (talk) 18:38, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Uhm Hedger z Castleton (talk) 16:06, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ynhockey (talk) 16:09, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great idea! I watch different pages for different reasons and this would help me keep them straight. Gary D Robson (talk) 00:17, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 02:07, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support MONUMENTA (talk) 02:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 13:14, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 10:11, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contrib} (he/him) 17:11, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 03:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 18:08, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree with Keith D -- definitely needs design before implementing, but I could see this being super useful! paul2520 (talk) 18:54, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ChhTJ096 (talk) 19:52, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Suonii180 (talk) 19:59, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rots61 (talk) 23:28, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KnowledgeablePersona (talk) 23:45, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Prawdziwy Mikołajek (talk) 17:47, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 23:44, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quiddity (talk) 09:01, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- TNT (talk • she/her) 21:25, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]