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Add ability to view more pages of recent changes to the front-end
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Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where): Being able to see the next page(s) of recent 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):

  • Consistency: All other pages with the option to choose the amount of viewable entries have this feature.
  • Useful to users: I constantly want to use this feature. I always thought I just didn't see it, only now did I realize that it didn't exist.
  • Bots: Not all bot owners can run their bot(s) 24 hours a day, so sometimes when one of these bots updates, they will need to see more than 500 changes.
  • Already implemented: This feature is already implemented in the backend, it is only missing in the front-end.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?): See above

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• Ilovemydoodle2 created this task.Jul 7 2022, 2:12 PM
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• Ilovemydoodle2 renamed this task from Add abilitt to Add ability to see more than 500 recent changes.Jul 7 2022, 2:13 PM
• Ilovemydoodle2 updated the task description. (Show Details)
Aklapper closed this task as Invalid.Jul 7 2022, 2:37 PM
Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Recent-changes.

This is already possible by editing the limit value in the URL. There are no plans to add more values to the user interface.

• Ilovemydoodle2 reopened this task as Open.Jul 7 2022, 3:03 PM
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• Ilovemydoodle2 updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 7 2022, 3:08 PM
In T312545#8061893, @Aklapper wrote:

This is already possible by editing the limit value in the URL. There are no plans to add more values to the user interface.

Why can’t we implement this in the front-end?

• Ilovemydoodle2 renamed this task from Add ability to see more than 500 recent changes to Add ability to more pages of recent changes to the front-end.Jul 7 2022, 3:09 PM
• Ilovemydoodle2 renamed this task from Add ability to more pages of recent changes to the front-end to Add ability to view more pages of recent changes to the front-end.
Aklapper closed this task as Declined.Jul 7 2022, 3:57 PM

You could implement it in your custom local MediaWiki installation, however for UX reasons (more buttons to clutter the interface) and performance reasons we don't plan to in upstream. (PS: It's possible to comment on tasks without reopening them. Thanks.)

• Ilovemydoodle2 added a comment.Jul 7 2022, 5:50 PM
In T312545#8062308, @Aklapper wrote:

You could implement it in your custom local MediaWiki installation, however for UX reasons (more buttons to clutter the interface) and performance reasons we don't plan to in upstream. (PS: It's possible to comment on tasks without reopening them. Thanks.)

This would be an extremely useful feature for me (and like many others), surely there is some way to do it?

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