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Ensure consistency of how special pages [et al.] switches can be saved
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Some switches of special pages can be saved in the preferences and some can't.
This bug tracks bugs related to the problem or suggesting different solutions, such as adding some preferences, removing them altogether or unifying them.

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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 OpenNoneT64559 Redesign Special:Preferences (tracking)
 OpenNoneT33882 Ensure consistency of how special pages [et al.] switches can be saved
 DeclinedNoneT18957 Add show/hide to Preferences for option on Special:NewPages
 OpenFeatureNoneT20524 Preferences: unify filter options of recent changes, new pages, watchlist, recent changes linked
 Resolved• werdnaT20410 Merge preferences-work branch with trunk
 ResolvedSn1perT19496 Automatically hide "Your preferences have been saved." message when changing preferences
 DuplicateNoneT24213 Add user preference to remember "Hide my own changes" on Special:RecentChanges
 OpenNoneT33881 Save special page preferences from the special page itself
 ResolvedmatmarexT50615 Options form at the top of Special:Watchlist needs cleanup
 ResolvedNemo_bisT54817 Handle "Search" --> "Advanced options" section of Special:Preferences on Special:Search itself
 OpenNoneT119084 Options form at the top of old Special:RecentChanges needs cleanup
 ResolvedmatmarexT119055 Keep checkbox and label together in the watchlist options form
 ResolvedFlorianT119181 Watchlist "2 hours" option redisplays as "1 hour"
 ResolvedFlorianT119172 Special:Watchlist should take the days of the preferences into the select field
 InvalidmatmarexT119208 Special:Watchlist shows nonfunctional RCMaxAge option in time dropdown menu
 ResolvedmatmarexT119245 "Show last: " (Wlshowtime) is hard to translate due to sentence concatenation
 ResolvedmatmarexT120416 Change the label of the $RCMaxAge option in the watchlist dropdown form "all" to $wgRCMaxAge itself
 OpenNoneT120093 Remember user settings in the watchlist
 DeclinedNoneT29050 Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits
 ResolvedkostajhT37004 Reduce options clutter on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist
 DeclinedPginer-WMFT48044 Make it possible to completely disable IME from the keyboard icon in two clicks
 ResolvedNoneT57966 Add a "You've not saved your changes" dialogue
 ResolvedNoneT60223 Improvements to the layout and contents of Special:Preferences (tracking)
 InvalidNoneT60229 Additions and requests to Special:Preferences
 OpenFeatureNoneT37007 Use words for relative time periods

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:49 PM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Core-Preferences, Tracking-Neverending.
• bzimport set Reference to bz31882.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Nemo_bis created this task.Oct 22 2011, 11:03 AM
• werdna unsubscribed.Dec 10 2014, 5:24 PM
Sn1per closed subtask T19496: Automatically hide "Your preferences have been saved." message when changing preferences as Resolved.Aug 1 2015, 11:27 PM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptAug 1 2015, 11:27 PM
Quiddity removed a parent task: T4007: [DO NOT USE] Tracking bug [superseded by #Tracking].Jul 14 2016, 4:15 AM
MarkAHershberger unsubscribed.Jul 14 2016, 2:08 PM
Nemo_bis edited projects, added Epic; removed Tracking-Neverending.Jul 24 2016, 8:26 PM
Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Sep 25 2016, 9:46 AM
• jmatazzoni closed subtask T29050: Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits as Invalid.Oct 9 2017, 9:10 PM
-jem- reopened subtask T29050: Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits as Open.Oct 12 2017, 5:52 PM
Catrope closed subtask T29050: Special:RecentChanges - Add missing preferences for hide/show like for minor edits and patrolled edits as Declined.Oct 12 2017, 6:00 PM
kostajh closed subtask T37004: Reduce options clutter on Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist as Resolved.Sep 18 2018, 1:16 PM
Izno added a project: Tracking-Neverending.Sep 27 2018, 1:19 PM
Aklapper removed a project: Tracking-Neverending.Sep 27 2018, 2:08 PM
Aklapper added a subscriber: Izno.

@Izno: I think this task could be declared resolved at some point, hence it's not Tracking-Neverending by definition?

Izno renamed this task from Ensure consistency of how special pages [et al.] switches can be saved (tracking) to Ensure consistency of how special pages [et al.] switches can be saved.Sep 27 2018, 3:24 PM
Izno updated the task description. (Show Details)
Izno removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.
In T33882#4622143, @Aklapper wrote:

@Izno: I think this task could be declared resolved at some point, hence it's not Tracking-Neverending by definition?

Why does it have (tracking) in the title then? :) Also, the word 'track' is used in the description.

Regardless, I'm just trying to make things consistent.

Aklapper added a comment.Sep 27 2018, 3:26 PM

@Izno: Words can have different meanings in different contexts. :)

Izno unsubscribed.Sep 27 2018, 3:32 PM
Izno removed a subtask: T64559: Redesign Special:Preferences (tracking).Jun 1 2021, 5:38 PM
Izno added a parent task: T64559: Redesign Special:Preferences (tracking).
Izno added a subtask: T37007: Use words for relative time periods.
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