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- Daniel Quinlan
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Thu, Sep 17
Was this the only right that wasn't present in a grant?
Sep 7 2026
Any updates on this being addressed? This is needed for a number of user scripts and gadgets.
Jul 14 2026
Thanks for mocking up the options.
Jul 6 2026
I don't think the change in T429258 an improvement to the UI. It makes the target for opening the Tools menu uncomfortably small, replaces a clear label with a vague and overused "three dots" icon, and reduces consistency with the adjacent controls. I don't think saving a small amount of horizontal space justifies the loss in clarity and ease of use. Space is much less constrained on the desktop site than on a mobile device.
I don't think this change is an improvement to the UI. It makes the target for opening the Tools menu uncomfortably small, replaces a clear label with an ambiguous and overused "three dots" icon, and reduces consistency with the adjacent controls. I don't think saving a small amount of horizontal space justifies the loss in clarity and ease of use. Space is much less constrained on the desktop site than on a mobile device.
Jun 22 2026
Jun 1 2026
I think it will be the right call to have the summary field following the same permissions as the filter. If the filter is not private, there's no reason to hide it. If the filter is private, then the description will be the only public information (like it is now).
May 28 2026
@kostajh It's hard to know without that information (difficulty level) being present in abuse filter logs.
Apr 23 2026
Apr 22 2026
To clarify, the new hook I'm proposing would be orthogonal to wikipage.content. It would be for dialogs, sidebars, etc. that add content like user links, page links, etc. which would want to be processed in user scripts and gadgets that perform function such as user group highlighting, block/lock marking, hover popups, etc.
Apr 21 2026
There are many good arguments against using wikipage.content for this purpose and I agree with them.
Apr 20 2026
The toolbar Info includes content that's almost always part of #mw-content-text: various standard links for the page creator, and the page history. Scripts that use and modify those elements generally monitor the wikipage.content hook.
Apr 19 2026
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Feb 3 2026
One approach that might help is to scope these messages more to debugging and development contexts:
- Emit the "out of sample" and other warnings from this code only when a debug flag or development mode is enabled (e.g., via a mw.config option, query parameter, user option, or localStorage setting). Perhaps the debug=true URL parameter would work for this?
- Keep the more verbose logging on beta and development environments, while suppressing it on production.
Feb 2 2026
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Nov 29 2025
Limit UserInfoCard to showing blocks within the past year
Nov 9 2025
Image of the minimal example from above:
Oct 26 2025
Oct 4 2025
A discussion about this has been opened at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Addition_of_abusefilter-modify-restricted_right_to_EFMs.
There has not been an RFC.
Sep 23 2025
Sep 19 2025
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
Sep 10 2025
The up and down buttons on the numeric fields are:
Sep 3 2025
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Jul 12 2025
Another idea that has been discussed is the idea of being able to set a random failure rate for CAPTCHAs. This would only be used for highly accurate filters targeting severe abuse.
Jun 10 2025
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May 8 2024
This problem is becoming worse and worse over time. Major place names in Manhattan are almost entirely Serbian at this point because name:sr-Latn is prioritized higher than the default name (which is English). The latinization code should probably not do anything if the default text is already entirely Latin characters.
Mar 25 2024
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Mar 9 2024
I've been working on some user scripts that deal with custom signatures and it is a serious design flaw that there is nothing wrapping custom signatures and, more broadly, it's an issue that nothing indicates where a comment ends and the signature starts. This is especially the case given how many signatures are:
