Last modified: 2013-02-17 08:30:43 UTC
There have been many complaints about history clutter introduced by Pending Changes on enwiki. This task is to figure out what we can do about it.
Brandon is going look and see if there are short term fixes we can make
This issue was the partially the result of the "ugly highlighting" comment in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback/Archive_4#Succinct_yet_descriptive_list_of_issues_and_suggestions , as well as complaints from when Pending Changes was first launched.
Quoting the relevant portion of this email: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-October/049813.html This one represents a bit of a paradox for us. On one hand, we know that there is a LOT of work to do here, and thus, we know that we're not going to make significant usability progress on this one by November. On the other hand, there are a number of little things that are annoyingly wrong, and with just a small amount of care and attention, we could make incremental progress on. We don't want to allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, so we're going to try to restrain ourselves, and come up with a few easy things that we can do to make this a little bit better. Brandon is planning to spend some time looking at the history page and come up with some formatting and wording fixes that will make the Pending Changes history pages a little better.
