See T206233

Is it possible to return it back to 5000? On busy wikis 1000 is not even one day of edits, thus it makes RC patrolling increasingly more difficult. In some cases (e.g. significant number of semi-automated edits) it is just an hour or two of edits, making such small limit barely usable. Thanks

I agree with @NickK that being able to show more than 1000 entries is very handy for RC and CVN work. At the moment I have to use multiple tabs, each with different filters to "break up" the number of entries, since I'm limited to only 1k per tab. Perhaps restoring the previous limit of 5k would be better? If it's a question of users abusing the high limits, maybe limit it to extended confirmed or higher?

@Etonkovidova and @SBisson , could you please have a look at this? Thanks

@NickK The task has been evaluated and will be triaged in the team's incoming meeting next week.

In T210897#4804369, @Etonkovidova wrote:

@NickK The task has been evaluated and will be triaged in the team's incoming meeting next week.

Thanks for this update. Can you please tell us whether any alternative solutions to retrieve more than 1000 edits exist in the meantime (e.g. Query, API etc.)? As this situation seems to last longer (several weeks?), this means that RC patrolling capacity will be seriously affected. Thanks

Are there any updates on this?

Yes, we're going to revert the patch that caused this. It will be in production on the next train. Thanks for your patience!

Change 479518 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Kosta Harlan):
[mediawiki/core@master] Revert "ChangesListSpecialPage: Make maximum limit consistent (1000)"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/479518

Change 479518 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Revert "ChangesListSpecialPage: Make maximum limit consistent (1000)"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/479518

Before the new RC page (the makeover), the URL didn't used to change when you changed the limit. The limit from the URL was respected up to 5000. Ever since the RC makeover, the URL always displayed up to 1000, but the page did show up to 5000 recent changes (this inconsistency bugged me, but it wasn't a big deal). However, this ticket was raised when the 1000 hard limit was imposed, which I think doesn't make sense for smaller projects.

I see that this has been fixed, i.e. limit of 5000 now works as expected (it still reverts back to 1000 in the URL, but at least it shows 5000 items).