Manual:$wgWatchersMaxAge

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Page watchers inactive for more than this many seconds are considered inactive. Used mainly by action=info .
Introduced in version:	1.26.0 (Gerrit change 193838; git #I10d294a)
Removed in version:	still in use
Allowed values:	(positive integer)
Default value:	180 * 24 * 3600 (180 days = about six months)
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Details

Counts the number of active watchers of the page that are displayed in action=info if $wgShowUpdatedMarker is enabled. Per "active watcher" it counts watchers that have visited that page since the last edit or that have visited the page at least $wgWatchersMaxAge before last edit (as tracked by the wl_notificationtimestamp field).

See also

• $wgUnwatchedPageSecret