Since this button on wiki page acts as a switch, it might be more intuitive for the button to show the states, rather than actions,i.e. rather than "watch/unwatch", it could be "not watched/watched", preferably "watched" would be highlighted and "unwatched" not.
It's better (and IIRC more widespread) for switches to have descriptions of two alternative states (e.g. On/Off, Yes/No, Low/High), rather than action to be taken.
I do not claim that the current presentation is particularly confusing, but the one I propose is more intuitive and requires less thinking on the part of the user, I think.
If user asks himself a question "Am I 'watching' this page?", "watched/unwatched" makes more outright sense to him than "watch/"unwatch".
All that is required seems to be simple re-labeling and then slightly alternating the translations.
What do you think?
This seems like a suggestion for upstream mediawiki?
Can you file the suggestion there? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
Feel free to re-open if there's something we can do here directly, but this seems more like a upstream request to me.
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