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Clarify the MediaWiki:Confirm-watch-top (and -unwatch-top) messages
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At a page such as https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Addwatch/en&action=watch
there are 2 strings that are nearly identical:

Problem: Because of this redundancy, some wikis have blanked one of the strings locally.
E.g. https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Addwatch&action=history
which thus displays as https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Addwatch&action=watch&uselang=ru

Proposal: Clarify the distinction between the title and the description to eliminate redundancy. E.g.

Title: "Add to watchlist"
Description: "Click <ok string> to add the page and associated talkpage into your watchlist. Learn more at <help link for watchlists>"

or similar.

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Quiddity created this task.Oct 1 2019, 5:25 PM
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Sunpriat2 subscribed.Oct 1 2019, 5:43 PM
Sunpriat2 added a comment.EditedOct 1 2019, 5:56 PM

https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:confirm-purge-title and
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:confirm-purge-top
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Addwatch/en&action=purge&uselang=qqx Also in this group. Purge synonymously with clear in translations. Additionally, “purge” sounds pretty technical and strange to “purge” a page. Non-technical participants don’t know what “purge a page” means - it sounds like deleting a page content. In translations, one of the ways this is a simplification "purge this page" to "clear the cache of this page". Maybe show something like "refresh page"?

Help links are sometimes added in local versions - they are useful.

Wargo subscribed.Oct 1 2019, 10:16 PM
Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Watchlist.Oct 2 2019, 12:19 PM

I assume this is about MediaWiki core? Adding project tag so others can find this task when searching for tasks under that project.

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