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Scope which extensions/settings/bots affect how change logs are displayed
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Description

Scope which extensions/settings/bots affect how change logs are displayed, so that we can decide what to create more tickets to investigate further

Acceptance criteria

  • a list of extensions/settings/bots that affect how the watchlist logs are displayed
  • an estimate of how widely they are used

This will lead to tickets in the future to help us with:

  • consideration of any breaking changes that we could make, or things that are dependent on the current watchlist format
  • considerations of improved UX that are implied by these things

Checklist

  • Investigate various extensions/settings (except for the grouping setting as that's in another ticket)
  • "DragNDrop" may create vague edit summaries, may be worth investigating
  • Consider bot generated edits (on wikidata at end of automatically generated edit summary, there is a blue link to a page which lists bot summaries - see tags)
  • Consider impacts our changes could have - e.g. are we likely to make a breaking change for a bot

Event Timeline

SuzanneWood-WMDE renamed this task from Investigate extentions/settings which affect how change logs are displayed to Investigate extensions/settings/bots which affect how change logs are displayed.Mar 12 2025, 1:50 PM
SuzanneWood-WMDE renamed this task from Investigate extensions/settings/bots which affect how change logs are displayed to Scope which extensions/settings/bots affect how change logs are displayed.Mar 12 2025, 2:00 PM
SuzanneWood-WMDE updated the task description. (Show Details)

tags - on Wikidata, this page lists information regarding the type of automatic edit summary and where/what the source is, shows many Bots.
Do these bot identifiers appear on Wikipedia watchists?