Last modified: 2013-11-10 21:10:18 UTC
The list of users who edited the page shown in enhanced recent changes and watclist is rather unnecessary. * It can get unwieldy long for active discussion pages; 50 edits by 30 different users a day is not an uncommon occurence * It's useless for short ones as well; this information is rarely useful and always reduntant with what's available in the expandable list. Let's kill it. I'll add screenshots to make it clear what I'm talking about below.
Created attachment 12933 [details] How it looks now
Created attachment 12934 [details] What I'm proposing
Change 75571 had a related patch set uploaded by Matmarex: Enhanced RC: Remove the list of users who edited the page https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/75571
(In reply to comment #0) > The list of users who edited the page shown in enhanced recent changes and > watclist is rather unnecessary. > > * It can get unwieldy long for active discussion pages; 50 edits by 30 > different users a day is not an uncommon occurenceù If one bothers, they can disable the extendedwatchlist option... > * It's useless for short ones as well; this information is rarely useful and > always reduntant with what's available in the expandable list. To me it's always been very useful. Forcing me to uncollapse everything to have crucial information such as who made some edits and the name kind o defeats the purpose of enhanced RC. If there are many names, it's even more useful to have them in a compact form rather than having to skim many lines.
[I'd mark this unconfirmed but I have no idea if the PATCH_TO_REVIEW status is supposed to prevail.]
I agree it's cluttered, but as Nemo points out, people do use it. From what I can tell, though, this is primarily on discussion pages, so with better discussion handling this may be something to bring up again then.
Change 75571 abandoned by Bartosz Dziewoński: Enhanced RC: Remove the list of users who edited the page Reason: Per comments here and on the bug. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/75571
Meh, okay. I'll just hide it for myself with some CSS. WONTFIXing.
I'm tempted to re-open this bug for further consideration. (In reply to comment #0) > The list of users who edited the page shown in enhanced recent changes and > watchlist is rather unnecessary. > > * It can get unwieldy long for active discussion pages; 50 edits by 30 > different users a day is not an uncommon occurence Since we're already using JavaScript, can't we implement some kind of sane threshold? Here's an example entry from my English Wikipedia watchlist: --- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (57 changes | history) . . (+28,325) . . [Future Perfect at Sunrise; Ymblanter; Kudzu1; EatsShootsAndLeaves; Black Kite; 50.128.155.168; AndyTheGrump; Bbb23; Michig; John Reaves; Ronz; Silvio1973; Thryduulf; Peter James; Dbrodbeck (2×); 69.23.116.182 (2×); NE Ent (2×); Balloftwine (2×); Dr. Blofeld (2×); Konveyor Belt (2×); Drmies (2×); Joefromrandb (2×); Dougweller (3×); BullRangifer (3×); Redverton (3×); The Anome (4×); SchroCat (4×); Toddst1 (5×); Oakshade (5×)] --- Perhaps we could do a "roll up" here and collapse this into "[Future Perfect at Sunrise; Ymblanter; and 15 others]" where "15 others" is a link to expand to see the full list? I guess the "15 others" link could either just activate the toggle arrow to show all of the recent changes or it could print the same long list of usernames. Either approach would work for me, but perhaps this would still be too disruptive to users' workflows? Comment 4 is discouraging, while comment 6 was insightful and gave me hope.
