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Bug 28446 - Refactor ChangesList-output as a table instead of a lazy unordered list dump
Refactor ChangesList-output as a table instead of a lazy unordered list dump
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.18.x
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: design
: 28994 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency tree / graph
 
Reported: 2011-04-06 23:03 UTC by Krinkle
Modified: 2014-11-17 10:35 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

See Also:
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

Attachments
ChangesList (as it is now in 1.17) - Recentchanges and Watchlist (182.68 KB, image/png)
2011-04-06 23:05 UTC, Krinkle 		Details
Screenshot of what a tabular changeslist could look like (this is a screenshot of the RTRC gadget) (283.75 KB, image/png)
2011-04-06 23:11 UTC, Krinkle 		Details
Other example of tabular changelist of a watchlist (129.17 KB, image/png)
2011-04-06 23:11 UTC, Krinkle 		Details
http://developer.mindtouch.com/Special:Recentchanges (224.81 KB, image/png)
2011-09-04 01:42 UTC, Krinkle 		Details
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Description Krinkle 2011-04-06 23:03:46 UTC 
I dont know how long this has been on the unspoken todo list but I've seen it read and heard it pass by from time to time.

It's really time we dont something about these ugly unstructured unordered lists for changeslists.

Compare the attached screenshots for reference.

A few points:
* Clean structure, things that belong to eachother are in the same column. Things can be indexed by the human eye much quicker
* More whitespace
* Alternating colours (also possible as a list..)
* Edit summaries line up better
* ...
Comment 1 Krinkle 2011-04-06 23:05:02 UTC 
Created attachment 8383 [details]
ChangesList (as it is now in 1.17) - Recentchanges and Watchlist
Comment 2 Krinkle 2011-04-06 23:11:11 UTC 
Created attachment 8384 [details]
Screenshot of what a tabular changeslist could look like (this is a screenshot of the RTRC gadget)
Comment 3 Krinkle 2011-04-06 23:11:37 UTC 
Created attachment 8385 [details]
Other example of tabular changelist of a watchlist
Comment 4 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2011-05-15 17:53:01 UTC 
*** Bug 28994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2011-05-15 17:54:09 UTC 
To summarize bug 28446 - table output would fix some RTL issues
Comment 6 Mark A. Hershberger 2011-05-16 12:05:05 UTC 
CCing Neil since we were just talking about this and Trevor since he was assigned on Bug 28994.
Comment 7 Krinkle 2011-09-04 01:42:20 UTC 
Created attachment 9011 [details]
http://developer.mindtouch.com/Special:Recentchanges

An old-time MediaWiki fork "MindTouch" also has a tabular RecentChanges, quite nice:
Comment 8 Sumana Harihareswara 2011-11-16 17:07:42 UTC 
+design keyword
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