User talk:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot

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Notice WatchlistBot should be up. If it is not, there is a problem I'm not aware of yet.

[edit] Bot login

Watchlistbot for me is going to be a dream thing. Was looking for one yesterday and stumbled on it today!! Pardon silly questions if any ;) I am on Fiesty Fawn and from what I understood, I added watchlistbot@jabber.org on to my pidgin "Add buddy" option and gave the same screen name and alias. Pidgin was logged into my gmail account at this time. There's no response. Can you help? Thanks. Prashanthns (talk) 11:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok. I see that I am not yet authorized. Sorry for the impatience!Cheers. Prashanthns (talk) 11:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Resolved. via gmail chat. --Chris (talk) 00:51, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Working great

WLB is working great for me, and thanks again for this. I was wondering if it is possible to add "my watchlist" itself to this. This would be convenient also to get updates from my watchlist? Is this possible? I tried "watch Special:watchlist/Prashanthns", which it adds, but doesen't do anything nonetheless. Thanks. Prashanthns (talk) 13:52, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Not currently. In order to do this it would need to obtain your Wikipedia account name and password; watchlists are not public information. I don't know about you but I don't really want a database of Wikipedia login information sitting on my computer, for several reasons.
You can copy over your Wikipedia watchlist though. Just type "batch add" into your chat window followed by a newline (use Shift+Enter to get one in Gmail) and then paste the contents of Special:Watchlist/raw right after. Of course, it will be up to you to keep them synchronized. --Chris (talk) 14:59, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Dd..uh...that simple!Thanks...and No, I wouldnt want my password there either!:)Thanks again. Prashanthns (talk) 15:17, 20 May 2008 (UTC)