Special:SpecialPages is the portal to all of special pages, it's linked in sidebar and I use it quite often but with the increasing number of special pages being introduced constantly, finding a special page is getting harder and harder, now I only search in the page to find the special page I want.
This needs to be fixed.
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| specials: Remove "hide" button from Special:Specialpages legend | mediawiki/core | master | +2 -3 |
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@Ladsgroup What do you have in mind?
Currently clarity comes down to categorization and titles of the special pages.
Would you think
- a different categorization,
- better titles (which are tasks for specific special pages),
- additional descriptions to the page titles
- search (I don't think that would help at all for sev reasons)
could help?
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This can change IMO
Would you think
- a different categorization,
Possibly but the underlying problem is the number of special pages is large now.
- better titles (which are tasks for specific special pages),
- additional descriptions to the page titles
Yes, that would help
- search (I don't think that would help at all for sev reasons)
I agree, let's not do this one
There are so many way to improve the current system but I'm not sure if they are good ideas UX-wise:
- Making it possible to have special pages repeated in different categories
- Making it like Special:Preferences, use tabs instead of section
- Let people have "favorite special pages", things they use quite often
- Add icons to sections/tabs/special pages to reduce to cognitive load?
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Change 945950 had a related patch set uploaded (by Krinkle; author: Krinkle):
[mediawiki/core@master] specials: Remove "hide" button from Special:Specialpages legend
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Change 945950 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] specials: Remove "hide" button from Special:Specialpages legend