Select the default tab between "Contribute" and "View contributions" to minimize tab switching for users frequently using one of them
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	Aug 28 2023, 5:55 PM

Description

Where the Contribute entry point (T322740) is available (for example, in Albanian Wikipedia), it provides users with two tabs: "Contribute" (with access to tools to start new contributions) and "View Contributions" (the list of past contributions by the user).

Currently, the "Contribute" tab is always the default. Thus, users regularly accessing "View contributions" as part of their workflow, have to always switch to the "View Contributions" tab. The table below illustrates the different views involved in this workflow:

Navigation menu	Contribute	View contributions

Adjust the default destination

This ticket proposes to adjust the tab that the user navigates to by default to by considering the previous selections, and the existence of previous contributions by the user:

If the user has selected one of the tabs before, that will be the default tab.
If the user has no contributions yet, the "Contribute" tab will be the default unless the "View contributions" option (will show an empty list) was explicitly selected before.
If the user has made no previous selection and there are contributions to show, the "View Contributions" tab will be shown as default.

In this way, the "View Contributions tab" will be the default tab shown unless (a) the user selects a different tab or (b) there are no contributions to list.

contribute-default-tab.png (403×515 px, 31 KB)

Adjust the navigation menu option

With the above proposal, the item from the navigation option (currently labeled "Contribute") may lead to either of the tabs. This ticket proposes to change the label to "Contributions" which is a more generic term that can encompass both "Contribute" and "View contributions".

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	User menu: Point the contributions link to the last visited special page	mediawiki/core	master	+44 -1

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Open	None	T322740 Contribute entry point
Open	None	T337727 The option to start a new contribution should not get in the way of those frequently accessing the list of their contributions
In Progress	ngkountas	T345102 Select the default tab between "Contribute" and "View contributions" to minimize tab switching for users frequently using one of them

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Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 28 2023, 5:55 PM

Pginer-WMF created this task.

Pginer-WMF renamed this task from Select the default tab between "Contribute" and "View contributions" to minimize user switching to Select the default tab between "Contribute" and "View contributions" to minimize tab switching for users frequently using one of them.Aug 30 2023, 12:53 PM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Quarter Backlog to Priority: Translation on the Language-Team (Language-2023-July-September) board.Aug 30 2023, 12:57 PM

Pginer-WMF raised the priority of this task from Medium to High.Aug 31 2023, 8:08 AM

Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T337727: The option to start a new contribution should not get in the way of those frequently accessing the list of their contributions.Aug 31 2023, 8:39 AM

Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T345772: Disable Special:Contribute on bnwiki.Sep 7 2023, 9:09 AM

Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Contribution entry point on the MediaWiki-Core-Skin-Architecture board.Sep 8 2023, 9:48 PM

Pginer-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Sep 22 2023, 8:59 AM

Change 960652 had a related patch set uploaded (by Nik Gkountas; author: Nik Gkountas):

[mediawiki/core@master] POC: Point the contributions link to the last visited special page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/960652

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 25 2023, 4:34 PM

ngkountas changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Sep 25 2023, 4:54 PM

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ngkountas moved this task from Priority: Translation to In Progress on the Language-Team (Language-2023-July-September) board.

This ticket is proposing to modify the contributions link in some way to provide the desired functionality. This contribution link is actually created inside SkinTemplate.php file, and this logic is shared for both the Vector skin used for desktop devices in production wikis, and the Minerva skin used for mobile devices. Thus, adding the appropriate logic to this method, would fix the issue for both skins.

Since, according to the task description, we need to be aware about the previous user visits of the user to the "Contribute"/"Contributions" special pages. For this reason, I suggest the introduction of a "last_contribute_visit" cookie that would store the last visited page, e.g. "contribute" for the "Special:Contribute" page and "contributions" for the "Special:Contributions" page.

Pginer-WMF edited projects, added Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December); removed Language-Team (Language-2023-July-September).Oct 2 2023, 9:01 AM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Quarter Backlog to In Progress on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

ngkountas moved this task from In Progress to In Review on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.Nov 9 2023, 11:02 AM

Pginer-WMF mentioned this in T319362: Initial enablements for the new Special:Contribute page entry point on mobile.Dec 12 2023, 9:07 AM

Pginer-WMF edited projects, added Language-Team (Language-2024-January-March); removed Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December).Jan 8 2024, 10:36 AM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Quarter Backlog to In Review on the Language-Team (Language-2024-January-March) board.

Pginer-WMF edited projects, added Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June); removed Language-Team (Language-2024-January-March).Tue, Apr 2, 3:23 PM

Pginer-WMF moved this task from Quarter Backlog to In Review on the Language-Team (Language-2024-April-June) board.

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Select the default tab between "Contribute" and "View contributions" to minimize tab switching for users frequently using one of themOpen, In Progress, HighPublicActions