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Add filter for "no changes"
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Very often, I click on the "X changes" link of a page to see what changed since my last visit, only to find out that nothing really changed, because what happened was some vandalism or a bad edit, followed by a revert by a bot or some patroller. So I usually waste time and requests in opening those useless diffs. Furthermore, I'm often overwhelmed by the size of my watchlist and may procrastinate going through it, when in reality it's much smaller than it appears since many or even most of the changes are of the vandalism-revert kind. I think it would be great to have a filter to not even see those changes, so that we may focus our time and energy on real ones.

BTW, thanks for this awesome tool, it has really improved my workflow on Wikipedia!

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@Sophivorus I'm currently working to match the functionality that exists in the core watchlist, does this exist there? I agree it would b useful, but I'm not really sure how to approach it - even just knowing that two edits are tagged as reverted and a revert (undo/rollback/manual revert) isn't necessarily enough if there are more than those two edits to show

I believe this functionality doesn't exist in the core watchlist. The closest thing is that little number showing the diff in bytes, that when adds up to zero, usually means vandalism-revert. If you implement the byte-count diff as in the core watchlist, then maybe it wouldn't be too difficult to add a filter to the settings to "Hide groups of changes by two or more users that add up to zero-bytes". Notice that changing a single character for another, or a word for another of the same length results in a zero-byte diff, so the filter should probably match groups of changes by two or more users that add up to zero-bytes to minimize the chances of overlooking vandalism. Then the only vandalism that would be overlooked would be when some vandal deletes some content, and then some other user adds some content of exactly the same number of bytes. This is so unlikely that chances are the only way it'd happen would be by some coordinated attack, which would make little sense since other users not using the global watchlist or this filter would easily spot it.

DannyS712 triaged this task as Lowest priority.Sep 4 2021, 10:20 PM
DannyS712 moved this task from Unsorted to Later on the User-DannyS712 board.
DannyS712 moved this task from Backlog to Later on the MediaWiki-extensions-GlobalWatchlist board.

If it doesn't exist in core, its not going to be a priority for me, but if I have extra time after I finish the current projects, I can take a look.