Wikipedia: Proposed Solution For Those Of Us Who Don't Live There

I'm up to my eyeballs in other things, and this thread on Wikipedia watch lists as related to deletion and everything else is pretty much the way things are. There's a gaping chasm for people who don't have their lives revolving around the Wikipedia; speaking for myself, I can't always watch things which I have edited to make sure that they aren't deleted.

Damn it, I'm human and I'm still trying to get an extra hour out of the 24 hour day.

So here's what I suggest:

RSS feeds for watch pages or email updates on watched pages for registered users.

I know, I know - Wikipedia resources are stretched pretty thin - but as you edit more articles, that watchlist becomes a timesink. My watchlist isn't very large right now, but it depends on who edits what. I'm not grand poobah of the Wikipedia, I just do what I can when I can and when I feel like it - probably like a lot of other people.

If the issue is really about content and maintaining good content - why not make it easier to do so? Maybe for the people who are always logged in to Wikipedia, it's an easy thing for them to go hit a talk page - but sometimes people get busy doing things which are not related to the Wikipedia.

It sort of makes sense to me to have that functionality. It's easy to get wrapped up in other things, and suddenly a week or two later stuff has changed significantly. I don't have time to log in to the email lists and to take part in asynchronous discussion on the Wikipedia related to this stuff.

But come on - making it easier on editors makes it easier on everyone.