Redesign Special:Recentchanges to organise output as a table instead of an unordered list
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	Apr 6 2011, 11:03 PM

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This task is about Speical:RecentChanges. There is likely interested in similar changes to the History page, the Watchlist page, and the Contributions page. However, depending on UX research/decisions and implemetnation details those may very well be handled separately.

I don't know how long this has been on the unspoken TODO list but I've seen it read and heard it pass by from time to time.

It's really time we don something about these ugly unstructured unordered lists for changeslists.

Compare the attached screenshots for reference.

A few points:

Clean structure, things that belong to each other are in the same column. Things can be indexed by the human eye much quicker
More whitespace
Alternating colours (also possible as a list..)
Edit summaries line up better
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Reference: bz28446

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Mentioned In: T93028: Topic History pages should be full-width to match Board History

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Krinkle created this task.Apr 6 2011, 11:03 PM

Created attachment 8383
ChangesList (as it is now in 1.17) - Recentchanges and Watchlist

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current_changeslist_rc:wl.png (421×1 px, 182 KB)

Created attachment 8384
Screenshot of what a tabular changeslist could look like (this is a screenshot of the RTRC gadget)

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Created attachment 8385
Other example of tabular changelist of a watchlist

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table_instantwatchlist.png (569×922 px, 129 KB)

Bug 28994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

To summarize bug 28446 - table output would fix some RTL issues

CCing Neil since we were just talking about this and Trevor since he was assigned on Bug 28994.

Created attachment 9011
http://developer.mindtouch.com/Special:Recentchanges

An old-time MediaWiki fork "MindTouch" also has a tabular RecentChanges, quite nice:

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Screen_Shot_2011-09-04_at_3.41.50_AM.png (978×1 px, 224 KB)

sumanah wrote:

+design keyword

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Krinkle renamed this task from Refactor ChangesList-output as a table instead of a lazy unordered list dump to Redesign Special:Recentchanges to organise output as a table instead of an unordered list.Apr 12 2020, 10:33 PM

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