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Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits
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Both Watchlist and Recent changes have similar hide/show options when accessing the pages:
Hide/Show:

  • minor edits
  • bots
  • anonymous users
  • logged-in users
  • my edits
  • patrolled edits

For Watchlist all of these can be saved/rememberd through Special:Preferences so users don't have to click the links to get their preferred output every single time.

However for RecentChanges only visiblity of 'minor edits' and 'patrolled edits' can be saved. The others not.

Being able to remember these settings would save some time for users.

Version: 1.18.x
Severity: normal

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:19 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Recent-changes.
• bzimport set Reference to bz27050.
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Krinkle created this task.Jan 30 2011, 8:17 PM
duplicatebug added a comment.Jan 30 2011, 8:53 PM

I am support this, hardcode defaults a bad practice.

See bug 7039 and bug 16957

Bawolff added a comment.Jan 30 2011, 8:54 PM

Considering how long the hideanons option for watchlist was broken with no one noticing, I think perhaps some of these prefs should be removed (unnecessary prefs are evil, yadda yadda). Anyways, see comments on r81210

Nemo_bis added a comment.Oct 22 2011, 10:38 AM
  • Bug 29696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nemo_bis added a comment.Oct 22 2011, 10:38 AM
  • Bug 7039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
aaron added a comment.Nov 4 2011, 5:56 PM

Not sure if this is justified. I think maybe hidebots is worth it. I suppose people could usage gadgets too :)

Umherirrender added a comment.Nov 12 2011, 8:29 PM

bug 7039 contains a patch

Umherirrender added a comment.Apr 5 2012, 6:42 PM

patch from bug 7039 commited together with bug 16957 with gerrit 4350

Umherirrender added a comment.May 5 2012, 2:42 PM

(In reply to comment #7)

patch from bug 7039 commited together with bug 16957 with Gerrit change #4350

change abandoned, because (so many) new preferences are not assisted by mediawiki developer

Krinkle added a comment.Sep 20 2012, 9:22 PM

I agree that is too many preferences.

I suppose they could easily be stored in a single entry though (JSON or serialized php). Or name them with clear prefixes and matching suffixes between rc and watchlist

duplicatebug added a comment.Sep 29 2012, 7:28 PM

related: bug 22213

Nemo_bis added a comment.May 19 2014, 1:03 PM

John, you mentioned this in bug 64829 comment 8; I'd like to fix this bug as next on my list of bug 31882 dependencies, any suggestion? My first example is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131727/ , I don't plan to invest more time in similar patches before the first is merged.

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Umherirrender added a project: MediaWiki-Core-Preferences.Jan 1 2015, 8:35 PM
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Ciencia_Al_Poder merged a task: T24213: Add user preference to remember "Hide my own changes" on Special:RecentChanges.Jan 1 2015, 9:14 PM
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Ciencia_Al_Poder renamed this task from Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits. to Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits.Jan 1 2015, 9:18 PM
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Ciencia_Al_Poder mentioned this in T33881: Save special page preferences from the special page itself.Jan 1 2015, 9:26 PM
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Scott added a parent task: T53942: Watchlist and recent changes usability issues (tracking).Nov 19 2015, 2:08 PM
Scott mentioned this in T50615: Options form at the top of Special:Watchlist needs cleanup.
• Purodha added a comment.Nov 19 2015, 6:18 PM

I support to make MW remember all these options.

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• jmatazzoni closed this task as Invalid.Oct 9 2017, 9:10 PM
-jem- reopened this task as Open.Oct 12 2017, 5:52 PM

This task seems valid and useful; I can understand that it is declined with an explanation, but IMHO marking as invalid is not the right way to close it.

Catrope closed this task as Declined.Oct 12 2017, 6:00 PM
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In the new filters UI, you can save any combination of filters you like, and you can make a saved filter "default", which means it'll load when you open the page. So while there aren't actual separate preferences for each of these filters, that feature lets you do the same thing.

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