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Preferences: unify filter options of recent changes, new pages, watchlist, recent changes linked
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Setting filter option defaults via Special:Preferences
should be possible for each of
Recent changes, New pages, Watchlist, and Rechent changes Linked
individually, and with an identical selection of choices, and
with most similar wordings.
See also bug 7039, bug 16957, bug 16969 .

It would likely be useful to employ a common set of
subroutines to the widest extent possible, and
to have an own tab for each of them in Special:Preferences

Version: 1.15.x
Severity: enhancement

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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 OpenNoneT64559 Redesign Special:Preferences (tracking)
 OpenNoneT33882 Ensure consistency of how special pages [et al.] switches can be saved
 DeclinedNoneT18957 Add show/hide to Preferences for option on Special:NewPages
 OpenFeatureNoneT20524 Preferences: unify filter options of recent changes, new pages, watchlist, recent changes linked
 Resolved• werdnaT20410 Merge preferences-work branch with trunk
 ResolvedSn1perT19496 Automatically hide "Your preferences have been saved." message when changing preferences
 DuplicateNoneT24213 Add user preference to remember "Hide my own changes" on Special:RecentChanges
 OpenNoneT33881 Save special page preferences from the special page itself
 ResolvedmatmarexT50615 Options form at the top of Special:Watchlist needs cleanup
 ResolvedNemo_bisT54817 Handle "Search" --> "Advanced options" section of Special:Preferences on Special:Search itself
 OpenNoneT119084 Options form at the top of old Special:RecentChanges needs cleanup
 ResolvedmatmarexT119055 Keep checkbox and label together in the watchlist options form
 ResolvedFlorianT119181 Watchlist "2 hours" option redisplays as "1 hour"
 ResolvedFlorianT119172 Special:Watchlist should take the days of the preferences into the select field
 InvalidmatmarexT119208 Special:Watchlist shows nonfunctional RCMaxAge option in time dropdown menu
 ResolvedmatmarexT119245 "Show last: " (Wlshowtime) is hard to translate due to sentence concatenation
 ResolvedmatmarexT120416 Change the label of the $RCMaxAge option in the watchlist dropdown form "all" to $wgRCMaxAge itself
 OpenNoneT120093 Remember user settings in the watchlist
 DeclinedNoneT29050 Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits
 ResolvedkostajhT37004 Reduce options clutter on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist
 DeclinedPginer-WMFT48044 Make it possible to completely disable IME from the keyboard icon in two clicks
 ResolvedNoneT57966 Add a "You've not saved your changes" dialogue
 ResolvedNoneT60223 Improvements to the layout and contents of Special:Preferences (tracking)
 InvalidNoneT60229 Additions and requests to Special:Preferences
 OpenFeatureNoneT37007 Use words for relative time periods

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:34 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Core-Preferences.
• bzimport set Reference to bz18524.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• Purodha created this task.Apr 19 2009, 11:18 PM
Catrope added a comment.Apr 20 2009, 9:35 AM

Assigning to Andrew, he's poking preferences in his branch.

• Purodha added a comment.Apr 23 2009, 7:38 AM

Good idea.

@ Andrew, if you like, please have a look at the addition of an "array" type of parameter to the routines handling preferences, mainly or entirely in includes/User.php , in my branch at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/mutiple_languages_select/phase3/ or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/49220
The same kind of selection is going to be used at several places and in extensions, too. Maybe it's worth merging it into your branch, or at least knowing that it's upcoming.

G.Hagedorn added a comment.May 30 2009, 1:20 PM

Aaron suggests on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18988 that that bug may be related to the current reworking of user preferences, please verify. Thanks a lot!

• werdna added a comment.Jul 3 2009, 1:01 PM

I don't have any intention of doing this, it isn't clear that it's even a good idea.

• werdna unsubscribed.Dec 10 2014, 6:16 PM
• demon unsubscribed.Dec 16 2014, 6:10 PM
Scott subscribed.Nov 19 2015, 2:15 PM

This should probably be closed - preferences for these tools are likely to be set on the tools themselves instead, which is better. See T33881.

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Dvorapa mentioned this in T180538: Improve Special:Preferences UI/UX.Sep 18 2018, 10:58 AM
Dvorapa added a parent task: T64559: Redesign Special:Preferences (tracking).Sep 18 2018, 6:45 PM
Izno added projects: MediaWiki-Recent-changes, MediaWiki-Special-pages, MediaWiki-Watchlist.Sep 22 2020, 1:04 AM
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Izno removed a parent task: T53942: Watchlist and recent changes usability issues (tracking).Sep 22 2020, 1:04 AM
MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 7:05 PM
Krinkle removed a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.Jun 19 2021, 3:07 AM
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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
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