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New Codex UI for pagination / page navigation in Special pages
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Goal is to provide a new pagination UI that can be used on special pages (and elsewhere), such as Special:Contributions, Special:Search, page history, Special:Allpages etc.

The new pagination would use Codex styles, buttons, icons and design tokens.

We initially explored creating a more general Codex component however the pagination used on SpecialPages tends to have the buttons (e.g. "next", "prev") as links and it does not require JavaScript. The contents of the special pages are also server-side generated and do not require JS.

Designs and styles for the pagination would be similar to the TablePager in the Codex Table component, and there are designs linked in this related task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368423

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Revert^2 "Update paging on Special:Search"mediawiki/coremaster+64 -6
Pager: Refactor CodexTablePager to use CodexPagerNavigationBuildermediawiki/coremaster+382 -87
Update paging on Special:Searchmediawiki/coremaster+64 -6
WIP - Implement CodexPaginationBuilder (e.g. for special pages)mediawiki/coremaster+211 -60
WIP - Implement CodexPaginationBuilder (e.g. for special pages)mediawiki/coremaster+153 -35
Customize query in gerrit

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aude created this task.Nov 17 2025, 11:29 PM
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aude mentioned this in T368423: Pagination: Add pagination component to Codex.Nov 17 2025, 11:37 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Nov 18 2025, 12:29 AM

Change #1206491 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aude; author: Aude):

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP - Implement CodexPaginationBuilder (e.g. for special pages)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206491

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 18 2025, 12:29 AM
aude moved this task from Proposals to In Progress on the Wikimedia Wishathon board.Nov 18 2025, 12:25 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Nov 18 2025, 5:49 PM

Change #1206931 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cparle; author: Aude):

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP - Implement CodexPaginationBuilder (e.g. for special pages)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206931

Volker_E subscribed.Nov 18 2025, 8:47 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Nov 19 2025, 12:57 PM

Change #1206491 abandoned by Aude:

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP - Implement CodexPaginationBuilder (e.g. for special pages)

Reason:

wip

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206491

gerritbot added a comment.Nov 19 2025, 4:03 PM

Change #1206950 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cparle; author: Dmaza):

[mediawiki/core@master] [WIP] Update paging navigation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206950

gerritbot added a comment.Nov 21 2025, 11:34 AM

Change #1206931 abandoned by Cparle:

[mediawiki/core@master] WIP - Implement CodexPaginationBuilder (e.g. for special pages)

Reason:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/1206950

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206931

Pppery moved this task from To triage to Multiple special pages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Nov 30 2025, 4:24 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Dec 1 2025, 4:32 PM

Change #1213527 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cparle; author: Cparle):

[mediawiki/core@master] Update paging on Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1213527

Johannnes89 subscribed.Dec 11 2025, 7:14 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Dec 16 2025, 9:53 AM

Change #1206950 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Pager: Refactor CodexTablePager to use CodexPagerNavigationBuilder

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1206950

gerritbot added a comment.Dec 16 2025, 9:57 AM

Change #1213527 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Update paging on Special:Search

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1213527

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 16 2025, 10:31 AM
Samwilson mentioned this in T412812: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'toString') when visiting Special:EditWatchlist.Dec 16 2025, 11:01 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 10 2026, 1:08 PM

Change #1224108 had a related patch set uploaded (by A smart kitten; author: Cparle):

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert^2 "Update paging on Special:Search"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1224108

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 10 2026, 1:08 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Jan 13 2026, 11:59 AM

Change #1224108 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert^2 "Update paging on Special:Search"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1224108

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 13 2026, 12:40 PM
Quiddity subscribed.Feb 2 2026, 10:39 PM

As a user, I was confused by the location of the "next" button. I suggest/request moving those buttons so that they are directly next to the page-quantity dropdown menu, near where the former equivalent-links used to be.
I.e. The wide-separation in this screenshot confused me; especially so because I'm a longterm user who expects to find "next" in the usual place, but I believe this would apply to any new user, too:

image.png (600×1 px, 124 KB)

• KSiebert added a project: Community-Wishlist.Feb 12 2026, 3:13 PM
• KSiebert subscribed.

We will go back to this one during Wishathon in May 2026.

EBernhardson mentioned this in T415762: Pager on search results makes no UX sense.Mar 2 2026, 4:22 PM
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