Help:Copying watchlist to new username
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. The standard way to transfer your watchlist to the new username is the following:
- Log into your old username.
- Click on "Watchlist" at the top of the page. This will bring you to your old username's watchlist page.
- Click on "Edit raw watchlist". This will display a text box with a complete list of the pages you are watching.
- Select all of the content of this text box (Ctrl+A on Windows and Linux, ⌘ Command+A on Mac) and copy the contents of this text box (Ctrl+C on Windows) to the clipboard.
- Log out from your old username and then log into your new username.
- Click on "Watchlist" and then on "Edit raw watchlist", exactly the same way as you did for your old username.
- Place the cursor in the text box and paste the contents of the clipboard into the box (Ctrl+V on Windows). You should now see the contents of your old watchlist appear in the textbox.
- If you want to, you can edit the text box to remove pages you no longer want to watch.
- Click "Update Watchlist" to save the changes.