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Include the HotCats edits into the Watchlist filters
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Description

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

In the watchlist, if I unselect "Category changes", I should not see the HotCat changes.

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):

In my wp:en watchlist, if I have the "Category changes" selected, I can see all the additions of an article into a category. If I unselect it, I can't see these additions anymore, which is OK. But I still see the HotCat additions.

In my wp:fr watchlist if I have the "catégorisation de la page" unselected, I can see all the additions of an article into a category. If I select it, I can't see these additions anymore, which is OK. But I still see the HotCat additions.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

An HotCat change is an edit change, but it only consists in adding a category, so it should be considered a category change and be hidden if the "Category changes" is unselected, so the watchlist is not overflowed with non-real edit changes if not wanted. And often, many HotCat changes come together and when one has a bulky watchlist, it is a bit annoying.

Thank you!

Event Timeline

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald Transcript

The French tag "Hotcats" is applied by users who use the gadget [[fr:Projet:Scripts et gadgets/Notices/HotCatsMulti]]. English Wikipedia doesn't have this tag, so selecting ou unselecting Category changes will never show you Hotcat.

@Daehan you can include "Hotcats" in your Watchlist (see : [[:Mediawiki:Help:New filters for edit review/Advanced filters]] and see : https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tagfilter=HotCats&limit=250&days=8&title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Liste_de_suivi&urlversion=2)

This task may rather focus on excluding tags (i.g. #not <tags> as :not <namespace>) or creating a way to make a tag implicit to a Mediawiki filter.

Tgr added a subscriber: Tgr.

"Category changes" is maybe a bit of a misnomer - what it does is show changes (articles added/removed) to the categories you are watching. It doesn't affect the displaying of changes when you are watching the article itself - edits to watched articles will always show, whether they are categorization or something else. MediaWiki's change management system makes it easy to tell that an edit added or removed some category, but it's hard to tell whether that was an edit's only effect. So, this is unlikely to happen.

Excluding tags is T119072: Allow tag filter on Special:Contributions to be inverted (enable the not operator) / T174349: Allow tag filter on Special:RecentChanges and Watchlist to be inverted (enable the not operator).