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Allow Special:Watchlist parameters to be customised in LocalSettings.php
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Description

Author: zigger

Description:
Special:Watchlist has a number of hard-coded parameters that could be defined in
DefaultSettings.php, allowing them to be customised in LocalSettings.php so that
site administrators could more easily override them with relevant values. Some
of the parameters seem to be optimisations to avoid expensive database queries.
The SpecialWatchlist.php parameters are:

  1. the displayed time-limit links using fixed arrays (1h, 2h, 6h, 12h, and 1d,

3d, 7d),

  1. the three variables controlling the default time-limit (1000 watched, 12h, 3d),
  1. the percentage of articles with talk pages (15%), and
  1. the number of articles edited per day (40,000). This last optimising

parameter is currently only set in REL1_4, which may be a separate issue
affecting performance in 1.5 and later.


Version: 1.5.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Special:Watchlist

Details

Reference
bz2452

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:31 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz2452.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

I see some settings in here from before my time. Which aspects of this issue are still relevant in MW 1.15a?

Changing component to "Watchlist"

  • Bug 17867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:02 AM
Aklapper removed a subscriber: wikibugs-l-list.