 This screencast is about using watch lists to keep up with discussions and new edits to articles on Wikipedia. Every account has a watch list, which is a tool for keeping track of recent changes on Wikipedia pages you care about. Wikipedians typically check their watch lists on a daily basis, or even more frequently when rapid discussions are going on. The watch list shows which pages and discussions have been active, and lists the edit summaries other editors left, providing a quick overview of what's going on. For many editors, the watch list is like the beating heart of Wikipedia. On my watch list, you can see that someone has been editing one of the articles I watch, and someone has added to a discussion on the article talk page as well. To add an article to your watch list, click the star tab next to the search box. You can remove an article from your watch list by clicking it again. Adding an article to your watch list automatically adds the corresponding talk page, and vice versa. By default, only the most recent change to an article shows up in the watch list, and it only tracks changes over the last three days. You can adjust your watch list settings by going to preferences, and then the watch list tab. For newcomers, it may be useful to increase the number of days displayed, and to enable several advanced options. Expand watch list to show all changes not just the most recent, and add pages I edit to my watch list. Click save to turn on new options. This will make it easier to keep track of the pages you're working on. As you edit more pages and your watch list grows, it may make sense to revisit some of those settings. Some key kinds of pages you may want to add to your watch list include articles you've contributed to, the talk pages of people you've contacted in case they respond on their own talk page rather than yours, and any project pages you're connected to, like Wiki projects. To learn more about watch lists, go to the page help colon watching pages. Happy editing!