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Every Wikidata edit gets displayed in watchlist despite ‘Expand watchlist to show all settings’ not set
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Description

Third time’s the charm, as suggested by @Ladsgroup in T50047. I have since enabled enhanced RC because I value seeing Wikidata edits in my watchlist more, but the bug still exists in the same form in the setup I used before:

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I don’t have an enabled setting for showing multiple edits from the same pages in my watchlist (‘Expand watchlist to show all settings, not just the most recent’), but Wikidata edits don’t acknowledge this and show each edit from Wikidata without checking for specific pages. I think that this behaviour should be fixed with showing me and others without enhanced RC only the latest edit.

This routinely brings my watchlist into disarray if one person on Wikidata edits an item too much:

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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Россия
  2. Add it to your watchlist
  3. Set up showing Wikidata edits in the watchlist if you don’t have it
  4. Check the watchlist for 20+ edits in the same item Q159

Event Timeline

Ladsgroup changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Bug Report".

Need to verify if this is still happening.

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Need to verify if this is still happening.

Confirmed. It has been a problem for years.

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Visit Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist
  • Ensure "Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent" is unticked
  • Ensure "Show Wikidata edits in your watchlist" is ticked
  • View [[Special:Watchlist]]

What happens?:

  • Local pages, in this case enwiki, on the watchlist only show the single most recent edit (expected behaviour)
  • Wikidata items on the watchlist show all edits in the watchlist period (unexpected behaviour)

What should have happened instead?:

  • With these preferences set, only the most recent Wikidata edit should be should shown.

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

  • Occurs on desktop and minerva.