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Stylize article-titles bold or enable the user to stylize them so
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

Stylize article-titles bold or add a config that enables the user to stylize them so (they could also get colors depending on various factors, like the type of page such as Category or Talk, but that could get implemented later)

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

See parent task

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

This would improve glanceability and make the page clearer which currently basically is a sea of blue that's very hard to read/browse/use.

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Why color instead of filter?

Because you may want to still see them and have them all on one page, adding colors or enabling the user to apply colors could make things easier, clearer to browse, such as being able to retrieve more info upon a glance, being able to skip items, and so on. First titles would be made bold (probably takes mere seconds to set the CSS font-weight), then one would add settings to change the style. This setting could have options for type of page.

Adding colors for different article types is not part of this issue, I guess it would need a separate task for that and I don't think it would be good to create it already because it's not that important/useful, this could be saved up for later.

Change #1219988 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gerrit Patch Uploader; author: IKhitron):

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalWatchlist@master] Make page titles bold.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1219988

Test wiki created on Patch demo by IKhitron using patch(es) linked to this task:
https://368d28d7ab.catalyst.wmcloud.org/w/

@Prototyperspective, please check if it's fine, here, log in as Alice with a password patchdemo1. Do not open the article and its talk page while logged in, since it will reset their watching date.

IKhitron triaged this task as Medium priority.Dec 21 2025, 6:09 PM

Change #1219988 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalWatchlist@master] Make page titles bold.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1219988

matmarex assigned this task to IKhitron.
matmarex subscribed.

@IKhitron Sorry for not replying, didn't notice the comment here until now. Looks great, much better now and thanks for solving this.