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A Watchlist allows you to keep a close watch on a page or group of pages. The Watchlist lets you know when the pages you are interested in have been updated. You can subscribe to updates to your watchlist by email or by RSS.
Adding and removing pages
To add a page to your watchlist, click the Watch button that appears at the top of the list:
The text will change to Stop Watching:
To remove the page you are viewing from your watchlist, simply click the Stop Watching button.
Seeing Watchlist updates in your workspace
Your Watchlist is accessed via the Workspace Toolbar:
The Watchlist page lists changes to any page you have added to your Watchlist, with the most recently changed pages first. However, you can re-sort the listing by using the 'Sort by' drop-down box. See Sorting .
Each item in the list contains
- the title of the page that was changed;
- the current number of revisions;
- the person who changed it last;
- the date and time they changed it;
- and a Watch / Stop watching toggle.
If you wish to view more information about the pages in the list, you may select 'Summaries' which will provide the first several lines of text from each page. See Title - Summaries Toggle for more information.
You can remove pages from your watchlist by clicking the blue star next to each entry in the Watchlist page. (Note that this does not actually delete those pages.) From the same list, click on the white star to re-add the page to your Watchlist.
Getting Watchlist updates by email or RSS
You can keep aware of activity on the pages in your Watchlist without actually visiting the workspace, using either email or RSS.
Email notifications
The system will send you notifications of pages that have recently changed via email. The Watchlist item under Settings / Preferences allows you to set how frequently these emails will be sent out and what is put in them.
RSS
When you visit your Watchlist page, the RSS button 
links to an RSS feed for the watchlist, which you can use to subscribe your aggregator to updates.
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