Page titles on my en.wp watchlist are bolded for a half second, then back to unbolded
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	BusterD
	Aug 22 2015, 5:22 AM

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I'm an intel Mac User running modern OS (10.10.3) using the latest Firefox (40.0) and Safari (8.0.6) to edit English Wikipedia on the secure server.

In the last few days, I've noticed a new phenomenon when my watchlist is opening or reloading. The page loads and for a fraction of a second all the page titles (all project spaces: main, talk, user, WP) are bolded, then the text reverts to plain style. Nothing except the page title bolds: not the timestamp, bit count, contributor or edit summary. I took a screen shot.

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I normally use Firefox, but when I tried Apple's browser the exact same effect occurs. This does not happen when I load my contributions page. Doesn't seem to occur when I'm in MetaWiki or French Wikipedia, just en.wikipedia.org.

Don't remember changing any preferences recently, except from deleting Lupin from my .js and allowing popups from the gadget tab. Tried disabling the popups and it didn't change the effect.

This isn't a big deal and it's not affecting my work, but since it's new I though I'd mention it here right away.

Thanks for all you folks do.

Scott

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Glaisher added a project: MediaWiki-Watchlist.Aug 22 2015, 5:25 AM

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Noticed something today I hadn't noticed before. I visited a user talk page and when I reloaded, that user talk was the only title not bolded. I experimented by visiting two of the pages at the top of my watchlist and sure enough, if I've visited pages very recently, those titles do not bold when I reload the watchlist.

To put it another way, the watchlist says the following just before the "mark all pages as visited" button: "Pages that have been changed since you last visited them are shown with a green marker." If I reload the watchlist, all listings which have the green marker are bolded for a half second before returning to plain text.

When I hit the mark all pages button and reload the watchlist, only the pages which have been canged since my last visit get bolded.

So that helps identify which titles go bold.

Hope this is helpful.

Scott

I'm really curious if someone else can reproduce this on en.wp and with which browser/operating system.
Unfortunately I cannot (but I don't have a MacOs platform around).

Aklapper renamed this task from when I bring up my watchlist, page titles are bolded for a half second, then back to unbolded to Page titles on my en.wp watchlist are bolded for a half second, then back to unbolded.Aug 24 2015, 9:19 AM

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Noticed something new today. After bringing up the watchlist, all the titles stayed bold for several seconds, except page locations I had visited recently. So I looked down in the bottom left corner of Firefox, which tells me what process the browser is doing and it said something like "waiting for upload.wikimedia". I tried to screen shot it, but missed my window before it reverted back to plain text.

Thanks again

Scott

This is a problem with local gadgets that are enabled on English Wikipedia that try to restyle the watchlist.

matmarex assigned this task to Edokter.Aug 28 2015, 1:09 PM

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this happens to me, as well, and is annoying....

w/o javascript, everything is bold on my watchlist on enwiki.

On Wikidata, the "mw-changeslist-line-watched" class is inconsistently applied on my watchlist and some entries have "mw-changeslist-line-notwatched" even though they are also watched.

on my dev wiki, they are all marked as "notwatched" (e.g. not bold) even though they are watched. (I prefer unbolded, though seems "notwatched" is abused for unbolding on the watchlist)

btw, I have chromium on Ubuntu

on enwiki, we apparently have a gadget that styles the watchlist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-WatchlistBase.css

In preferences, the gadget is referred to as "(This loads the base style for the watchlist. Please do not disable this option.)".

appears this was recently turned into a gadget and these styles were previously in MediaWiki:Common.css.

short term solution would be to move the styles back there. better, long-term solution would be to fix this styling issue in MediaWiki itself. imho, watchlist entries should not be bold.

This is a local problem. Normally, unvisited pages on your watchlist are bolded. On enwiki, this is changed to a green bullet. Recently, changes to the ResourceLoader forced me to move the CSS associated with the watchlist to a gadget, to ensure the correct loading order.

Unfortunately, this can result in style flashes (the bolding) because --I can only deduce-- the CSS is loaded later then expected (even though the gadget is loaded using the top directive, and *should* load before Common.css). I occasionally see it myself, but in less then 10% of the time.

I do intend to merge the base gadget with the default (green bullets) gadget in the hope that this aleviates the problem.

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