Editing Help:Watchlist (section)

=== Number of watchers ===
{{anchor|watchers}}
For any particular page, it is possible to discover how many users have it on their watchlist. Under the Tools menu, click on [[Help:Page information|Page information]]. Scroll down about two-thirds of the way through the first ("{{Int:pageinfo-header-basic}}") section. You may see two related lines, like this:
{| class="wikitable"
|{{int:pageinfo-watchers}}
|312
|-
|{{int:Pageinfo-visiting-watchers|30}}
|23
|}
The first line gives the number of accounts in the database that presently include this page. The second tells you how many users not only put the page on their watchlists, but also visited that page at least once during the last 30 days. Particularly for older pages, the first number does not give an accurate understanding of how many editors might review edits to the page, as most accounts are inactive.<ref>As of 2024, [[Template:Registered editors by edit count|about 42 million accounts]] have been registered, and about 14 million of them made at least one edit (ever). About one-sixth of those 14.1 million editors made one edit during the year of 2023, and most of those only made one or two edits during the entire year.</ref>

If the first number is less than 30, the exact number is displayed only to administrators. For all other users, the first will say "{{int:pageinfo-few-watchers|30}}", and the second line will be omitted. If displayed at all, the second line shows the exact number to all users, or says "There may or may not be a watching user visiting recent edits" if none of the editors with that particular page on their watchlists has visited that page during the last 30 days.