| • matmarex | |
| Jul 23 2013, 6:01 PM |
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| Nov 22 2014, 2:04 AM |
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| Nov 22 2014, 2:04 AM |
The list of users who edited the page shown in enhanced recent changes and watclist is rather unnecessary.
Let's kill it. I'll add screenshots to make it clear what I'm talking about below.
Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T53942 Watchlist and recent changes usability issues (tracking) | |||
| Declined | None | T53895 List of users who edited the page in enhanced RC/watchlist is clutter and superfluous |
Change 75571 had a related patch set uploaded by Matmarex:
Enhanced RC: Remove the list of users who edited the page
(In reply to comment #0)
The list of users who edited the page shown in enhanced recent changes and
watclist is rather unnecessary.
- It can get unwieldy long for active discussion pages; 50 edits by 30
different users a day is not an uncommon occurenceù
If one bothers, they can disable the extendedwatchlist option...
- It's useless for short ones as well; this information is rarely useful and
always reduntant with what's available in the expandable list.
To me it's always been very useful. Forcing me to uncollapse everything to have crucial information such as who made some edits and the name kind o defeats the purpose of enhanced RC. If there are many names, it's even more useful to have them in a compact form rather than having to skim many lines.
[I'd mark this unconfirmed but I have no idea if the PATCH_TO_REVIEW status is supposed to prevail.]
I agree it's cluttered, but as Nemo points out, people do use it. From what I can tell, though, this is primarily on discussion pages, so with better discussion handling this may be something to bring up again then.
Change 75571 abandoned by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Enhanced RC: Remove the list of users who edited the page
Reason:
Per comments here and on the bug.
I'm tempted to re-open this bug for further consideration.
(In reply to comment #0)
The list of users who edited the page shown in enhanced recent changes and
watchlist is rather unnecessary.
- It can get unwieldy long for active discussion pages; 50 edits by 30
different users a day is not an uncommon occurence
Since we're already using JavaScript, can't we implement some kind of sane threshold? Here's an example entry from my English Wikipedia watchlist:
Perhaps we could do a "roll up" here and collapse this into "[Future Perfect at Sunrise; Ymblanter; and 15 others]" where "15 others" is a link to expand to see the full list? I guess the "15 others" link could either just activate the toggle arrow to show all of the recent changes or it could print the same long list of usernames. Either approach would work for me, but perhaps this would still be too disruptive to users' workflows? Comment 4 is discouraging, while comment 6 was insightful and gave me hope.
