Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:41 UTC
Create a dropdown menu in the upper right corner that, when clicked upon, will list, perhaps, the 20 wiki pages most recently viewed by that user, and allow quick navigation to them. As with other links, clicking on an item should navigate to it in the window presently open, and right-clicking on it should allow the user to open it in another browser tab. Often in the creation of wiki pages, users will be moving back and forth between many different pages (e.g. template pages, policy pages, etc.) It sometimes happens that, to clear up the clutter of open tabs, a user will close some of them and then find himself unexpectedly needing something from that page a little later. This will make it faster and easier to find and navigate to that page again, increasing editor productivity.
That list should be an additional feature for the "undo tab" of your browser, not of mediawiki. If there is a clutter of tabs, there would be also such clutter on the "recent pages" list. You can still implement it in your javascript if you want.
Why not just go to the history drop down (if your in firefox) or the Go dropdown (if your in internet explorer, more recent versions have it as a sub-menu of some other drop-down) menus? Every browser implements some easy way of finding the last ten pages you visited.
