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 New Filters colored highlighting dots will be, respectively, hollow (outlined) or filled in to indicate seen vs. unseen status. This has the advantage of being similar with the use of filled/hollow dots in Notifications to similarly indicate read vs. unread states. To be clear, filled dots = unseen; hollow = seen.
- !!Info here TK from @Pginer-WMF re. the proper color for default, un-highlighted dots. See comment below.!!
(The secondary indicator filled/hollow will enable or individuals who dislike boldfacing to customize their display without losing this key piece of information about watchlist results.)
|Filled/empty bullets|Filled/empty bullets combined with highlighting|
|---|---|
|{F8805084}|{F9014374}|