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.