Change the unordered lists to ordered
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	Danny_B
	Sep 10 2007, 1:06 AM

Description

Most of the special pages list pages according to certain criteria.

It would be more user friendly to list them as ordered list having the next page started on proper number.

This would have at least following two benefits:

It would give the imagination of amount of listed pages to user (since some special pages miss the total count - see T6394 eg.)
It would allow quicker and more flexible referring to items in list (user can refer to number, which could be found quickly by scrolling, and not to certain name which is usually searched by search dialog).

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz11268

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Change <ul> to <ol> in AllPages	mediawiki/core	master	+2 -2

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned Here: T6394: Provide a count in Special pages that list articles/pages (e.g. special:whatlinkshere)

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:54 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.

• bzimport set Reference to bz11268.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Danny_B created this task.Sep 10 2007, 1:06 AM

matthew.britton wrote:

Users would be able to count their contributions by setting [[Special:Contributions]] to display many items and scrolling to the bottom, thus freeing up toolserver resources used by that darn edit counter :)

What's the action item or action items here? Which pages in particular would you like to see changed? A generic bug about changing "unordered lists to ordered" can't be acted upon. Please be more specific.

Any special page which lists pages currently using unordered list.

Puneethchanda claimed this task.Nov 14 2018, 2:36 PM

@Puneethchanda: Hi! As you claimed this task, how is it going? Do you need any help?

@Puneethchanda: I am resetting the assignee of this task because there has not been progress lately (please correct me if I am wrong!). Resetting the assignee avoids the impression that somebody is already working on this task. It also allows others to potentially work towards fixing this task. Please claim this task again when you plan to work on it (via Add Action... → Assign / Claim in the dropdown menu) - it would be welcome! Thanks for your understanding!

Hello sir;
I have already pushed my code to Gerrit here
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/473725/ is the link
to my Gerrit account, and jerkins bot verification is succeeded. Please let
me know if there is any problem with it.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/473725/
With Regards,
Puneeth Chanda,
Blog http://www.puneeths2001.wordpress.com, GitHub
https://github.com/puneeth2001
Undergrad Student
Amrita University.

In T13268#4825631, @Puneethchanda wrote:

I have already pushed my code to Gerrit here
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/core/+/473725/

@Puneethchanda: Ah, thanks for the quick reply (and congratulations to your patch!)!
Could you please edit the commit message to list this task and use imperative mode? See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Commit_message_guidelines and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial#Amending_a_change_.28your_own_or_someone_else.27s.29 - thanks!

Will do, thanks!
With Regards,
Puneeth Chanda,
Blog https://aimsigh.wordpress.com/, GitHub
https://github.com/puneeth2001
Undergrad Student
Amrita University.

Change 473725 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aklapper; owner: PuneethChanda):
[mediawiki/core@master] Change <ul> to <ol> in AllPages

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/473725

I kind of disagree. I don't think subsequent pages of results should start at 1. If we knew how many results came before on previous pages, then I would think this is a good idea, but since we don't, i think unordered lists are less confusing.

Aklapper awarded a token.Nov 1 2019, 7:38 AM

@Puneethchanda: I am resetting the assignee of this task because there has not been progress lately (please correct me if I am wrong!).
Resetting the assignee avoids the impression that somebody is already working on this task. It also allows others to potentially work towards fixing this task.
Please claim this task again when you plan to work on it (via Add Action... → Assign / Claim in the dropdown menu) - it would be welcome! Thanks for your understanding!

Ciencia_Al_Poder updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 7 2020, 5:12 PM

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM

As argued in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/473725. This isn't going to happen without significant investment to finds answers to questions like on which pages this makes the most sense, and how they should behave on any but the first page.

Change 473725 abandoned by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE):

[mediawiki/core@master] Change <ul> to <ol> in AllPages

Reason:

I had to decline T13268 for now.