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The "All" and "Other" tabs on MobileFrontend watchlist show Flow gibberish topic ID links instead of topic titles
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The "All" and "Other" tabs on MobileFrontend watchlist shows Flow gibberish topic ID links. Also, it doesn't show topic changes in the "Talk" tab.

What should happen:

  • Stuff like Topic:Se14547daaj65kpa shouldn't be shown. Instead it should show the human-readable topic title.
  • Topic changes should be shown in the Talk tab. Currently they are omitted.
  • Possibly, changes to a flowified talk pages shold be shown only as topic changes. Currently "User talk:Amire80" is shown, and if it's the same change as the topic change, it's unnecessary.

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Amire80 created this task.Mar 23 2015, 9:19 AM
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Amire80 renamed this task from gibberish in mobile fronted with Flow to the "All" tab on MobileFrontend watchlist shows Flow gibberish topic ID links.Mar 23 2015, 9:27 AM
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Amire80 added projects: Web-Team-Backlog, StructuredDiscussions.
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Amire80 added a parent task: T93430: Mobile web - Flow issues (tracking).
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Amire80 added a comment.Mar 23 2015, 9:44 AM

Come to think of it, ideally the notifications for Flow on mobile should be so good that a watchlist for talk pages shouldn't be needed at all :)

MaxSem moved this task from Incoming to 2014-15 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 23 2015, 5:17 PM
MaxSem moved this task from 2014-15 Q4 to 2016-17 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.
Maryana moved this task from 2016-17 Q4 to 2015-16 Q4 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Mar 23 2015, 5:19 PM
EBernhardson triaged this task as Medium priority.Mar 23 2015, 5:45 PM
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Part of the fix for this T59154, it is not a complete solution but i think it would help to at least have sensible titles shown without having to visit each place that shows titles.

• DannyH added a comment.Mar 23 2015, 10:34 PM

I think we just need to play Whac-a-Mole with these places. Adding words to the unique ID won't really make this mobile page a lot better. It should say "Topic title on Board name".

• DannyH added a project: Collaboration-Team-Triage.Mar 23 2015, 10:34 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from 2015-16 Q4 to Product Owner Backlog on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Apr 10 2015, 5:29 PM
• Jhernandez edited projects, added MobileFrontend; removed Web-Team-Backlog.Aug 18 2015, 4:33 PM
QuimGil renamed this task from the "All" tab on MobileFrontend watchlist shows Flow gibberish topic ID links to The "All" and "Other" tabs on MobileFrontend watchlist show Flow gibberish topic ID links instead of topic titles.Nov 15 2015, 2:41 PM
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QuimGil subscribed.Nov 15 2015, 2:51 PM

As a first basic fix, couldn't the mobile watchlist use the same code used by the mobile notifications, where the topic appears in human-readable form?

This might not be the perfect UX solution, but it looks like low-hanging fruit (?) to solve the current problem, which is grave. When new mobile users see "Topic:Sspenndn8ro02k81", there goes their credibility about Flow.

Is this low-hanging fruit solution good first task? Could it be a Google-Code-In-2015 task?

• DannyH unsubscribed.Nov 16 2015, 11:38 PM
Qgil mentioned this in T59154: Flow: Prettify thread permalink URLs/Titles (they are not human readable!).Nov 25 2015, 9:23 AM
Jdlrobson lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.Dec 3 2015, 11:46 PM

No time to work on this right now but patches welcome although this might be a little overcomplicated . T109277 might be a better use of time here.

QuimGil added a comment.EditedDec 4 2015, 12:09 AM

Can someone explain in simple terms why the human readable titles that appear in mobile notifications are so difficult to show in the mobile watchlist?

PS: I know not many users check ca.wiki, mediawiki.org and office.wiki watchlists from their mobile device regularly, but this is my true story. :) This bug is the most visible broken aspect of my Wikimedia mobile experience.

Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Team:Editing on the MobileFrontend board.Mar 16 2016, 10:38 PM
MBinder_WMF added a project: Web-Team-Backlog.May 17 2016, 6:32 PM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Product Owner Backlog to 2016-17 Q1 on the Web-Team-Backlog board.May 18 2016, 3:20 PM
MBinder_WMF moved this task from 2016-17 Q1 to Incoming on the Web-Team-Backlog board.May 18 2016, 4:53 PM
MBinder_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Triaged but Future on the Web-Team-Backlog board.Jul 4 2016, 7:26 PM
Jdlrobson closed this task as Declined.May 22 2017, 10:11 AM

We don't have capacity to reimplement the watchlist anymore then we currently have. The problem with the current implementation is it directly hits the database rather than making use of an api method provided by core to access to all rows in the watchlist. It thus overlooks things like preferences. Continuing like this is unsustainable.

I will make sure this particular feature is added as a requirement to T109277 which aims to increase code quality of the special watchlist code in core to allow it to be skinned for mobile. At very least that work should give us an api/model of the data in the watchlist and simply override the presentation.

Please bear with me a week or so to do this.
Ps. Not sure if declining or merging as duplicate was appropriate here.

Amire80 added a comment.May 22 2017, 8:17 PM

Any status is OK as long as the intention is to get rid of the gibberish.

Pelagic mentioned this in T233845: Non-AMC Mobile watchlist shows opaque names for Structured Discussion topics.Sep 26 2019, 7:51 AM
Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE mentioned this in T263633: Mobile Special:EditWatchlist displays item IDs instead of labels.Sep 23 2020, 5:19 PM
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