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Save special page preferences from the special page itself
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Per Nikerabbit's comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/81210#c13635
It's unclear if it's feasible and if it can be done without cluttering the special pages too much or reducing flexibility (compare T13612: Maximum to "Days to show in watchlist" in preferences should equal $wgRCMaxAge comment 13).
Could be useful for T22151: Preferences for anonymous users (allowing only a subset of preferences)?

See Also:
T54807: Identify and remove legacy preferences from MediaWiki core (tracking)

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:49 PM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Core-Preferences, Design.
• bzimport set Reference to bz31881.
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Nemo_bis created this task.Oct 22 2011, 11:02 AM
Umherirrender added a comment.May 5 2012, 2:49 PM

A api for preferences exist now (bug 18195)

Ironholds added a comment.Aug 25 2012, 9:39 AM

Repeated from 38395; we'll be working on this soon :).

Nemo_bis added a comment.Aug 25 2012, 10:06 AM

(In reply to comment #2)

Repeated from 38395; we'll be working on this soon :).

Good. Don't forget bug 31882, inconsistency is what causes most confusion and lost opportunities in users.

Nemo_bis added a comment.Jun 2 2014, 2:12 PM

Worth clicking: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=31882&display=tree&rankdir=LR

gerritbot added a comment.Jun 18 2014, 7:20 AM

Change 139872 had a related patch set uploaded by Nemo bis:
Put Watchlist preferences on the watchlist itself

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/139872

Quiddity added a comment.Jul 27 2014, 9:06 PM

Tangential discussion from June at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_127#Watchlists (TheDJ points them towards this bug, at the end. :)

He7d3r awarded a token.Nov 24 2014, 1:52 PM
Nemo_bis added a comment.Nov 24 2014, 3:14 PM
In T33881#346285, @Nemo_bis wrote:

Worth clicking: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=31882&display=tree&rankdir=LR

Sob redirects; click https://old-bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencygraph.cgi?id=31882&display=tree&rankdir=LR instead.

• werdna unsubscribed.Nov 24 2014, 3:30 PM
Ciencia_Al_Poder subscribed.Jan 1 2015, 9:26 PM

Special:RecentChanges would also benefit from this. See also T29050

gerritbot added a comment.Jan 7 2015, 9:37 PM

Change 139872 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
Link to Watchlist preferences from the watchlist itself

Reason:
revisit later

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/139872

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matmarex closed subtask T50615: Options form at the top of Special:Watchlist needs cleanup as Resolved.Nov 11 2015, 10:26 PM
Scott mentioned this in T20524: Preferences: unify filter options of recent changes, new pages, watchlist, recent changes linked.Nov 19 2015, 2:15 PM
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matej_suchanek added subtasks: T119084: Options form at the top of old Special:RecentChanges needs cleanup, T120093: Remember user settings in the watchlist.Dec 2 2015, 4:10 PM
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Krinkle mentioned this in T54807: Identify and remove legacy preferences from MediaWiki core (tracking).Mar 31 2016, 5:46 AM
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• jmatazzoni added a subscriber: Volker_E.Feb 1 2017, 12:19 AM

I see a few different ideas floating around on this page. The title suggests we should "Save" special page prefs from the page itself. Elsewhere, a patch mentions just "Linking" to Watchlist prefs from Watchlist.

Both ideas have merit, but the latter—just linking to the prefs from the relevant page— is certainly easier to implement. I think having such a link could add considerable value. Users of Recent Changes, for example, currently have no reason to suspect that a list of preferences exist to customize that page's functions. Having a link on the page for "Set page preferences" would go a long way towards cluing them in.

All we really need for this is a design and spec for standard placement (presumably in the vicinity of the Help icon?). If we had that, then teams could add the links to their pages whenever they had some time. Who would be responsible for creating a design like this? @Volker_E, what do you think?

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