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Prevent long Recent Activity edit summaries from overflowing
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Description

When there is an usually long edit summary for an edit on the Recent Activity module, we should not go beyond a specific line limit, and instead use text overflow with ellipses.

See screenshot below:

Screenshot 2026-01-08 at 1.51.01 PM.png (536×751 px, 73 KB)

Acceptance Criteria:

  • The text is cut off after so many lines and suffixed with an ellipses

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Prevent long Recent Activity edit summaries from overflowingmediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboardmaster+12 -3
Customize query in gerrit

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Kgraessle created this task.Jan 8 2026, 7:59 PM
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Samwalton9-WMF subscribed.Jan 13 2026, 8:26 AM

The text is cut off after so many lines and suffixed with an ellipses

Perhaps a character-count cutoff would be the right approach? We could figure out a number that gets us 2-3 sentences at a standard desktop resolution.

Samwalton9-WMF moved this task from Backlog to MVP on the PersonalDashboard board.Jan 14 2026, 1:32 PM
Scardenasmolinar set the point value for this task to 2.Jan 20 2026, 3:28 PM
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Samwalton9-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Jan 20 2026, 4:28 PM
Samwalton9-WMF triaged this task as High priority.Jan 26 2026, 3:59 PM
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Samwalton9-WMF added a comment.Jan 27 2026, 5:13 PM

Stalled on T415077, so we can see what that looks like first.

DMburugu added a project: OKR-Work.Jan 28 2026, 2:11 PM
Scardenasmolinar changed the task status from Stalled to In Progress.Jan 29 2026, 5:37 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Jan 30 2026, 4:06 AM

Change #1235198 had a related patch set uploaded (by Scardenasmolinar; author: Scardenasmolinar):

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Prevent long Recent Activity edit summaries from overflowing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1235198

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 30 2026, 4:06 AM
Dillon moved this task from In Progress to Reviewed (waiting for changes) on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Jan 30 2026, 3:25 PM
Scardenasmolinar moved this task from Reviewed (waiting for changes) to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Jan 30 2026, 9:18 PM
Dillon moved this task from Eng review to QA on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Feb 2 2026, 8:18 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Feb 2 2026, 8:23 PM

Change #1235198 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Prevent long Recent Activity edit summaries from overflowing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1235198

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 2 2026, 8:32 PM
ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.14; 2026-02-03).Feb 2 2026, 9:00 PM
jsn.sherman moved this task from QA to Done on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Feb 4 2026, 6:31 PM
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verified fixed on test wiki

jsn.sherman closed this task as Resolved.Feb 4 2026, 6:32 PM
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