It is annoying to see edits on the watchlist again that you've already seen because you got a notification about them (because you were mentioned, it's your own talk page, you subscribed to a topic using DiscussionTools, etc.)
What if the watchlist had a filter to exclude edits that also caused a notification to be sent to you?
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| mediawiki/extensions/Echo | master | +81 -1 | [PROOF OF CONCEPT] Watchlist filter to exclude edits with notifications |
This is just a wild idea but @ppelberg seemed enthusiastic today when I mentioned it as an "opposite" approach to T287790.
The patch is a proof-of-concept, just to demonstrate I think this would look like. I made it in May during the Product Inspiration Week (and I didn't like it enough to present it, heh). A real version would have to be implemented differently, this patch does some inefficient queries.
Change 712538 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/Echo@master] [PROOF OF CONCEPT] Watchlist filter to exclude edits with notifications
Test wiki created on Patch Demo by PPelberg (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task:
Does this really help with the use case of T287790? Mentally ignoring specific pages on your watchlist is easy, a filter that would only hide a small subset of watchlist entries doesn't add much value IMO.
Change 712538 abandoned by Bartosz Dziewoński:
[mediawiki/extensions/Echo@master] [PROOF OF CONCEPT] Watchlist filter to exclude edits with notifications
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