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A public watchlist is a tool for monitoring changes to a certain list of articles. It is comparable to the personal watchlist to which all registered Wikipedia users get access when they create an account. For information about personal watchlists, see Help:Watching pages.
There is no software infrastructure designed on Wikipedia to make a public watchlist. This page gives instructions for a workaround which replicates this functionality to the best extent possible with a reasonable effort.
A public watchlist is useful when a group of people all want to monitor the same set of pages. This could be used in a WP:WikiProject or any other organization of users.
When creating and maintaining a public watchlist the {{
la2}}
template can be useful. It lets you add an article and its associated talk page as a pair. For example, {{
la2|Moon}}
would render as
Moon (
talk) thus adding both the main article and its talk page at the same time.