As a Wikipedia editor I want to be notified if a new article was added to or deleted from a certain category in order to quickly address improper additions and deletions.
See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Umfragen/Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Top_20#M.C3.B6glichkeit.2C_eine_Kategorie_auf_neue_Artikel_hin_zu_beobachten (in German).
Further details:
Details were discussed in an RFC.
Effort: ..
Needs to be discussed with: ..
This is part of the Top 20 wishes of the German community.
Related tasks:
- T3710: Ability to watch all articles in a category which is about watching *all* edits to category entries.
Concerns:
- T109633: Disable watch category membership by default
- T109759: [CatWatch] Request for blocklist/allowlist feature for category addition watchlist
Bugs from the first implementation: