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Adding customization of unwatched changes to user preferences
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Author: davidswikipediaemail

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Could user preferences for en.wiki be modified to add a preference for changing the way unwatched changes are displayed? Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Watchlist survey established that unwatched changes highlighting should be off by default, but that a preference should be available to add it. I would suggest adding options for bolding and an underscore, as those had the most support, with a link to Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists for further modifications.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 12:58 AM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Core-Preferences, Design.
• bzimport set Reference to bz38210.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jul 6 2012, 5:04 AM
duplicatebug added a comment.Jul 8 2012, 1:19 PM

You mean unvisited? Because unwatched pages or not on the watchlist...

Just wikilinks for the pages of comment 0:

  • [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Watchlist survey]]
  • [[Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists]]
• bzimport added a comment.Jul 9 2012, 2:07 AM

davidswikipediaemail wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

You mean unvisited? Because unwatched pages or not on the watchlist...

Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you!

Jorm added a comment.Jul 21 2012, 10:18 PM

The Foundation design team does not believe in preference proliferation and we recommend that this not be done (we actually want to remove preferences when possible, as they create a confusing experience). Accordingly, we are not going to spend any resources on this request.

If the community wishes this to be implemented, it can (and should) be done with a gadget that can be enabled by users or by the enwiki community.

It is further our believe that watchlist bolding should be enabled by default (as it is a feature of MediaWiki), and that any gadget to disable the functionality should not be turned on globally. However, that is a community decision.

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 23 2012, 12:12 AM

davidswikipediaemail wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

The Foundation design team does not believe in preference proliferation and we
recommend that this not be done (we actually want to remove preferences when
possible, as they create a confusing experience). Accordingly, we are not
going to spend any resources on this request.

If the community wishes this to be implemented, it can (and should) be done
with a gadget that can be enabled by users or by the enwiki community.

It is further our believe that watchlist bolding should be enabled by default
(as it is a feature of MediaWiki), and that any gadget to disable the
functionality should not be turned on globally. However, that is a community
decision.

Okay, I was told that this would happen by someone on en.wiki (someone else told me to file this bug). A gadget request has been added. Thanks for getting to my request.

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