On most wikis new, or "unseen", changes on Watchilist are indicated via boldfacing of the page title. But some wikis, notably English Wikipedia, have customized this system. The English Wikipedia community elected to institute a system that uses a blue dot in the left margin for seen changes and a bright green (3D) dot for unseen changes.
Now that Global Collaboration team is extending the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review | New Filters for Edit Review ]] UX to Watchlist, custom systems like the one on English Wikipedia pose a problem. Specifically, the New Filters UX displays colored dots in the left margin in combination with highlighting to help users understand what colors of highlighting have been applied to edits. Testing shows users find these dots very helpful, particularly when multiple colors have been applied to a particular edit.
After [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=794697988#New_filters_for_edit_review_Beta_feature:_how_to_show_new_edits_on_watchlists.3F | consulting with the community ]] on the best way to resolve this inconsistency, we will be standardizing all wikis (including English) on the following system of indicators:
- Boldfacing of the page title will be standard across all wikis for unseen changes.
- A secondary indicator will be that the dots next to each result in the left margin will be, respectively, hollow or filled to indicate seen vs. unseen status. This has the advantage of being similar with the use of hollow/filled dots in Notifications to similarly indicate read vs. unread states. To be clear, filled dots = unseen; hollow = seen.
- When highlighting is applied to a particular edit, the hollow/filled dots will show the highlighting.
- When no highlighting is applied, the dots will be the default color !!Info here TK from @Pginer-WMF re. the proper color for default, un-highlighted dots. See comment below.!!
Using a secondary indicator of filled/hollow dots will enable wikis or individuals who dislike boldfacing to customize their display without sacrificing the distinction between unseen and seen changes.
|Filled/empty bullets|Filled/empty bullets combined with highlighting|
|---|---|
|{F8805084}|{F9014374}|