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Bug 23721 - Useless "Deleted only" checkbox on page history and Special:Contributions for users unable to view deleted revisions
Useless "Deleted only" checkbox on page history and Special:Contributions for...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
: 1.21.0 release
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: easy
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2010-05-31 00:03 UTC by Gurch
Modified: 2013-06-18 15:19 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Gurch 2010-05-31 00:03:14 UTC
The page history filters show a "Deleted only" checkbox regardless of whether the user is able to view deleted revisions. This checkbox is completely useless to the vast majority of users, and should not be shown unless the user can view deleted revisions.
Comment 1 The Evil IP address 2010-08-25 10:16:10 UTC
Furthermore, I think this button is pretty pointless if the page has no deleted revisions at all.
Comment 2 Dan Collins 2011-07-09 01:27:54 UTC
This bug is still present, I have updated the summary to indicate /why/ the checkbox is useless, and I'm going to go ahead and mark this as an enhancement as the behavior is not strictly 'wrong', just non-optimal.
Comment 3 Bugmeister Bot 2011-08-19 19:12:21 UTC
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
Comment 4 MZMcBride 2011-11-01 20:09:10 UTC
This really ought to be fixed up before 1.18 is released. It's pretty blatantly awful UI.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Furthermore, I think this button is pretty pointless if the page has no deleted
> revisions at all.

Split off into bug 32127. This is a separate issue.

(In reply to comment #2)
> This bug is still present, I have updated the summary to indicate /why/ the
> checkbox is useless, and I'm going to go ahead and mark this as an enhancement
> as the behavior is not strictly 'wrong', just non-optimal.

I'm marking this as normal (not that it really matters...). It's not an enhancement to fix what is an obvious bug. Showing users a "deleted only" checkbox when it doesn't do anything is a bug, not a feature request.
Comment 5 Alex Monk 2012-10-13 14:05:57 UTC
Gerrit change #27870
Comment 6 MZMcBride 2012-10-13 22:08:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Gerrit change #27870

This is a good start, but doesn't resolve ?action=history.

I believe hiding this checkbox is appropriate. It was added in response to bug 20186. It's reasonable to want to filter a page history or Special:Contributions if you have the power to un-hide revisions. For typical users, the interface clutter simply isn't worth it, in my opinion.
Comment 7 Alex Monk 2012-10-14 01:05:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Gerrit change #27870
> 
> This is a good start, but doesn't resolve ?action=history.
> 
> I believe hiding this checkbox is appropriate. It was added in response to bug
> 20186. It's reasonable to want to filter a page history or
> Special:Contributions if you have the power to un-hide revisions. For typical
> users, the interface clutter simply isn't worth it, in my opinion.

Done in PS3.
Comment 8 Alexandre Emsenhuber [IAlex] 2012-10-14 09:58:05 UTC
Change merged.

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