Limit reading lists to pages from the current project
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	May 19 2026, 9:33 PM

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Currently reading lists can show articles from different projects. For example if a list has 3 articles from French Wikipedia and 6 from English wikipedia on a list with ID = 5 the list will show 9. This rendering requires optimization (see T406775: Spike - Optimize API calls made on Special:ReadingLists page). As an interim measure we'll limit the list to articles from the current list.

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Only show articles from the current project in the list

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Create a list with 3 articles from English and 5 from French and Id "X"
When visiting Special:ReadingLists/X or Special:ReadingLists on English Wikipedia, only 3 articles from English are shown
When visiting Special:ReadingLists/X or Special:ReadingLists on French Wikipedia, only 5 articles from English are shown
When visiting Special:ReadingLists/X or Special:ReadingLists on German Wikipedia, the list appears as empty

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Limit reading lists to pages from the current project	Aude	mediawiki/extensions/ReadingLists	master	+421 -20

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Mentioned In: T406775: Spike - Optimize API calls made on Special:ReadingLists page
Mentioned Here: T406775: Spike - Optimize API calls made on Special:ReadingLists page

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Jdlrobson-WMF created this task.May 19 2026, 9:33 PM

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Jdlrobson-WMF mentioned this in T406775: Spike - Optimize API calls made on Special:ReadingLists page.May 19 2026, 9:34 PM

aude awarded a token.May 20 2026, 3:05 PM

aude moved this task from Incoming to Needs refinement on the Reader Experience Team board.May 26 2026, 3:59 PM

aude added a project: FY252627 Reading Lists (Beta improvements based on feedback).May 26 2026, 4:02 PM

aude triaged this task as High priority.May 26 2026, 5:29 PM

Change #1293782 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aude; author: Aude):

[mediawiki/extensions/ReadingLists@master] Limit reading lists to pages from the current project

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1293782

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 26 2026, 5:40 PM

aude set the point value for this task to 3.May 28 2026, 2:21 PM

aude moved this task from Needs refinement to Ready for sprint on the Reader Experience Team board.

aude moved this task from Backlog to Performance on the FY252627 Reading Lists (Beta improvements based on feedback) board.May 28 2026, 3:06 PM

aude moved this task from Performance to Logged-in UI on the FY252627 Reading Lists (Beta improvements based on feedback) board.

aude moved this task from Logged-in UI to Performance on the FY252627 Reading Lists (Beta improvements based on feedback) board.Jun 1 2026, 2:48 PM

Change #1293782 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ReadingLists@master] Limit reading lists to pages from the current project

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1293782

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 2 2026, 7:33 PM

Sorry didn't realize this wasn't in the sprint but if you compare https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Special:ReadingLists/Jdlrobson with https://es.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Especial:ReadingLists/Jdlrobson it is working to expectations!

Jdlrobson-WMF moved this task from Ready to Sign-off on the Reader Experience Team (REx Sprint 22 [Q4 Jun 2 - Jun 15]) board.Jun 4 2026, 9:24 PM

aude moved this task from Beta improvements based on feedback to Graduating from Beta on the FY252627 Reading Lists board.Jun 9 2026, 2:14 PM

aude edited projects, added: FY252627 Reading Lists (Graduating from Beta); removed: FY252627 Reading Lists (Beta improvements based on feedback).

aude moved this task from Backlog to Performance on the FY252627 Reading Lists (Graduating from Beta) board.

@Jdlrobson-WMF this was to be added to the sprint after my other tasks moved out of code review (or at mid-sprint checkin)

Jdlrobson-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Jun 11 2026, 8:02 PM

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Jdlrobson-WMF merged a task: T414012: [placeholder] Reconsider how to render articles from different projects in the same list.Wed, Jun 17, 4:10 PM

Jdlrobson-WMF added subscribers: HFan-WMF, Sneha.

Should we also chat about this at the custom lists alignment meeting with the apps designers, @Sneha ? I'm wondering because in the apps, lists are allowed to show articles from various languages, and I don't know if we are introducing a new UX gap between web and apps.

Yeah we will have to revisit this at some point. Let's keep this in mind and see if this becomes a bigger need.

ldelench_wmf added a project: OKR-Work.Thu, Jul 16, 12:33 AM

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