For clarity: this request is about the source mode, right? In visual mode, a such button would make no sense: what you type there automatically gets nowiki’d.

Yes. I don't use the visual mode, but if the suggested button doesn't make sense there, then sure, it's only for source mode.

Do the tiny dropdown triangle icons in categories have the same root cause?

It would seem that the main ask of this ticket has been implemented, at least in Vector 2022 – the "View new changes ..." link is now separate from the collapsable/hideable "Active filters" box:

I don't know how to comment on Gerrit, but the first paragraph of the commit message doesn't describe the reported issue well:

I recently stumbled into this issue. Usually, I keep the "Active filters" fully opened. I had to use a smaller screen for a period of time, so I collapsed the largest collapsible element available to make the watchlist more readable. I got really confused for a couple of days that the "View new changes..." link wasn't showing up.

@Xqt, thank you for coming up with a fix so quickly!

As for code review, my experience with Python is limited, but the change on gerrit make sense to me too – the new code takes all elements of the tuple entry until the last one (slice until -1) as they are, and takes the last element of the tuple entry, unpacks it as a tuple, and uses them as as parameters to BotPassword. This applies to all cases when BotPassword is part of a line from the password file, for all variants (2, 3, or 4 items), which are listed the aforementioned page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/BotPasswords

I applied the patch locally:

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.12; 2025-01-14).

A possible security consideration: if the check for redirect content is a simple prefix comparison, then such a redirect could "hide" some code from an unsuspecting user. This won't be an issue if only code comments are allowed in the suffix.

A very janky implementation of this is available in form of a userscript (see section about security for a disclaimer).

My bad, I, indeed had the Syntax Highlighter gadget enabled when I made the original screenshots.