Last modified: 2014-05-19 13:03:41 UTC
Both Watchlist and Recent changes have similar hide/show options when accessing the pages: Hide/Show: * minor edits * bots * anonymous users * logged-in users * my edits * patrolled edits For Watchlist all of these can be saved/rememberd through Special:Preferences so users don't have to click the links to get their preferred output every single time. However for RecentChanges only visiblity of 'minor edits' and 'patrolled edits' can be saved. The others not. Being able to remember these settings would save some time for users. ( see also: r81210 and comments; bug 26961; )
I am support this, hardcode defaults a bad practice. See bug 7039 and bug 16957
Considering how long the hideanons option for watchlist was broken with no one noticing, I think perhaps some of these prefs should be removed (unnecessary prefs are evil, yadda yadda). Anyways, see comments on r81210
*** Bug 29696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 7039 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not sure if this is justified. I think maybe hidebots is worth it. I suppose people could usage gadgets too :)
bug 7039 contains a patch
patch from bug 7039 commited together with bug 16957 with Gerrit change #4350
(In reply to comment #7) > patch from bug 7039 commited together with bug 16957 with Gerrit change #4350 change abandoned, because (so many) new preferences are not assisted by mediawiki developer
I agree that is too many preferences. I suppose they could easily be stored in a single entry though (JSON or serialized php). Or name them with clear prefixes and matching suffixes between rc and watchlist
related: bug 22213
John, you mentioned this in bug 64829 comment 8; I'd like to fix this bug as next on my list of bug 31882 dependencies, any suggestion? My first example is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131727/ , I don't plan to invest more time in similar patches before the first is merged.
