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Add User Preference Option to hide reverted edits from Watchlist and Page History
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Author: kovo1

Description:
There should be a User Preference Option to hide reverted edits from the Watchlist and Page History. This would save a lot of "eyeball time" looking over changes whose net result is null.


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Severity: enhancement

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bz11664

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:00 PM
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Unlikely to want to hide them, though an indication might be useful. That won't be possible until there's some kind of metadata indicating that a revision was reverted, though.

kovo1 wrote:

Could it be hidden if the bytecount change was zero?

Set to LATER. Cannot be done now per comment 1.

In reply to comment 2: a bytecount change of 0 is only that. A lot can be done to a page without changing the byte count.

[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html . Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest". For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]

I wonder if this deserves a higher priority now, given that https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/609773 implemented some kind of metadata (T254074: Implement the reverted edit tag). This feature should help with part of the concerns raised at

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As for Huggle, not only there is a chronic problem of people willing to waste their volunteer time there operating it, instead of creating content, but it's a bad solution as well, since it fills up the historic of the articles with revertions after revertions, polluting it and making it much less readable.
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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:02 AM
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