Maniphest T20674

History page excessively cluttered, esp. with suppressrevision
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	tstarling
	May 4 2009, 3:58 AM

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	F5698: unclutter-history-page.patch
	Nov 21 2014, 10:37 PM

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I would like to enable suppressrevision/deleterevision for sysops by default, for a default MediaWiki install. But the history page interface is excessively cluttered and confusing. While this might not be a problem for Wikipedia's elite, I think it may be overwhelming for someone using MediaWiki for the first time.

Can we please have a method for hiding the less commonly used items on the history page, to be shown when a link or button is clicked? I'm especially interested in hiding the show/hide link and checkbox. Additionally hiding the comparison radio buttons would also be good, since the usability initiative found them to be distracting.

Version: 1.20.x
Severity: normal

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Reference: bz18674

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T52039 Proposed changes to default settings (tracking)
		Open	Feature	None	T70298 Give sysops deletelogentry and deleterevision rights by default
		Open		None	T20674 History page excessively cluttered, esp. with suppressrevision
		Resolved		aaron	T20827 PageHistory.php deleterevision <form> breaks on ugly URL wikis

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:37 PM

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tstarling created this task.May 4 2009, 3:58 AM

When the link to unhide the advanced items be using javascript?

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

When the link to unhide the advanced items be using javascript?

That sounds lovely!

show/hide links are gone now at least

Created attachment 7372
UI concept

This patch has some rough, incomplete work I did to test out the UI concept.

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unclutter-history-page.patch9 KBDownload

*Bulk BZ Change: +Patch to open bugs with patches attached that are missing the keyword*

sumanah wrote:

+design to ask for visual/UI design feedback.

(In reply to comment #4)

This patch has some rough, incomplete work

> setting "patch-reviewed" keyword.

Getting this into Gerrit would be great.

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