[BUG] Watchlist link feed/list preference not honoured when following user Menu watchlist link.
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	Edtadros
	Aug 3 2019, 12:49 AM

Description

Steps to Reproduce:

Add or remove a page to watchlist by clicking the watchstar with JS turned off.
Confirm.

Actual Results:
The link that appears on the confirmation screen points to Watchlist - Modified.

Expected Results:
The link should point to the same Watchlist - List as you get when you click the Watchlist link on the User Menu.

See the following screengrab for the current behavior.

T229228-watchlisterror.gif (614×283 px, 639 KB)

Developer notes

The confirmation page is provided by core and links to Special:Watchlist not Special:EditWatchlist. The link in the menu points to the list view Special:EditWatchlist - so this is working properly (there are no magic redirects)

This is a bug though and due to the inconsistency between how desktop and mobile behave (on desktop the "list view" is not a destination as such. Fixing the link on the confirmation page would involve hooks and more complexity and I think our focus should instead be on T229716

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved	Goal	ovasileva	T198313 [GOAL] Advanced mobile contributions
Resolved		ovasileva	T210655 [EPIC] AMC Navigation
Resolved		ovasileva	T228916 Deploy AMC to all Wikipedias
Resolved		phuedx	T214540 [EPIC] AMC Navigation - user menu
Resolved	BUG REPORT	ovasileva	T229228 Watch/unwatch url is incorrect for non-js users
Open		None	T109277 [EPIC]: Use core watchlist code for mobile experience
Declined	BUG REPORT	Jdlrobson	T229716 [BUG] Watchlist link feed/list preference not honoured when following user Menu watchlist link.

Event Timeline

Edtadros created this task.Aug 3 2019, 12:49 AM

Edtadros mentioned this in T229228: Watch/unwatch url is incorrect for non-js users.

Jdlrobson claimed this task.Aug 5 2019, 2:35 PM

Jdlrobson edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog; removed MW-1.34-notes (1.34.0-wmf.17; 2019-08-06), Web-Team-Backlog (Readers-Web-Kanbanana-2019-20-Q1).

Jdlrobson moved this task from Incoming to Needs Prioritization on the Web-Team-Backlog board.

Jdlrobson renamed this task from [BUG] Watchlist link in confirmation does not go the same view as the User Menu watchlist link. to [BUG] Watchlist link feed/list preference not honoured when following user Menu watchlist link..Aug 5 2019, 2:40 PM

Jdlrobson added a parent task: T109277: [EPIC]: Use core watchlist code for mobile experience.

Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)

Jdlrobson edited projects, added Web-Team-Backlog (Tracking), MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend Special Pages); removed Web-Team-Backlog, MobileFrontend.

Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Watchlist on the MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend Special Pages) board.