This bot is designed create project wide watchlists. It uses WikiProject categories contain talk pages that feature the projects banner. A link to each article is added to the watchlist so that Special:recentchangeslinked can be used to watch them.

The following steps are needed to add a watchlist to a project:-

  1. Create a subpage in the project and add {{User:JoshurBot/Project watchlist}} with required parameters as given below
  2. Link Special:recentchangeslinked using the sub page's name somewhere on the project page

Parameters

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Theres currently three parameters for the template

  • project - This gives the name of the project (currently not used by the bot).
  • source - This is the template or category that is used to find articles.
  • type - This can be set to either "embedded in" for using a template or "category members" for a category. If a template is used as the source then all the articles that have the template on their talk pages will be included in the watchlist.