Last modified: 2014-03-19 19:24:21 UTC
Setting filter option defaults via Special:Preferences should be possible for each of Recent changes, New pages, Watchlist, and Rechent changes Linked individually, and with an identical selection of choices, and with most similar wordings. See also bug 7039, bug 16957, bug 16969 . It would likely be useful to employ a common set of subroutines to the widest extent possible, and to have an own tab for each of them in Special:Preferences
Assigning to Andrew, he's poking preferences in his branch.
Good idea. @ Andrew, if you like, please have a look at the addition of an "array" type of parameter to the routines handling preferences, mainly or entirely in includes/User.php , in my branch at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/mutiple_languages_select/phase3/ or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/49220 The same kind of selection is going to be used at several places and in extensions, too. Maybe it's worth merging it into your branch, or at least knowing that it's upcoming.
Aaron suggests on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18988 that that bug may be related to the current reworking of user preferences, please verify. Thanks a lot!
I don't have any intention of doing this, it isn't clear that it's even a good idea.
