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Standardize use of ‘hist’ and ‘history’ in RecentChanges
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Description

On RecentChanges, individual page edits shorten ‘history’ to ‘hist’. When grouping edits by page, ‘history’ is used. We should pick one or the other.

I’ve highlighted it below for clarity

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———ORIGINAL REPORT———
Please don't sometimes say "hist", sometimes say "history"

5 February 2020
   ! 14:08 	高雄市警察局旗山分局‎ diffhist  -35‎  Kenchen1017 talk contribs block →‎呼號 rollback 1 edit Tags: Mobile web edit Mobile edit
1 February 2020
   ! 20:50 	台南市消防局‎‎ 3 changes history  -355‎  [Hs‎ (3×)]
30 January 2020
   ! 14:02 	嘉義縣警察局竹崎分局‎ diffhist  +8‎  Kenchen1017 talk contribs block rollback 1 edit Tags: Mobile web edit Mobile edit
29 January 2020
     22:34 	User creation log  User account S6452559 talk contribs block was created ‎
   ! 12:34 	台北市消防局‎ diffhist  -28‎  Hs talk contribs block rollback 1 edit Tags: Mobile web edit Mobile edit
   ! 12:33 	屏東縣消防局‎‎ 2 changes history  -33‎  [Hs‎ (2×)]

Please be consistent and use only one or only the other. Thanks.

Seen in
https://radioscanningtw.miraheze.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A:%E8%BF%91%E6%9C%9F%E8%AE%8A%E5%8B%95

P.S., odd that I can't copy the "|" separators with my mouse.

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RhinosF1 renamed this task from Please don't sometimes say "hist", sometimes say "history" to Standardize use of ‘hist’ and ‘history’ in RecentChanges.Feb 5 2020, 9:16 PM

Updated and made description clearer but it’d be nice to mock the change up first because I don’t know whether the status quo actually looks better from a neatness and design perspective.

P.S., odd that I can't copy the "|" separators with my mouse.

It was declared via CSS