It's a shame that the box for configuring the edit filters covers the user's watchlist. It means that, despite the changes taking effect in real time, the user cannot see the effect that their changes are having. I would like for the edit filter box to be a detachable panel, or a new window, or for there to be some other way that the user can actually see the result of what they are doing, without having to close and open the box repeatedly.
The box is not supposed to remain open if you've closed it.
What happen when you click outside of this box? Any click outside is supposed to close it; press Esc works too.
I can't reproduce the issue, so I suspect an issue with one of your scripts/gadgets. Do you still have the issue when you access the watchlist with this special link? If no, please follow the instructions about broken scripts and report here.
For example, I would like to filter OUT Wikidata edits. Otherwise, I really like the tool - appealing and easy interface, fast, not intrusive. Thanks! ~~~~
I did that in the Filter and in Preferences. I purged cache afterwards, but no difference. I tried it on Edge and Chrome.
I have this Beta feature enabled: New wikitext mode. I don't know if that could be a factor.
Having wikidata edits showing up in my Watchlist is not a major problem for me, but I did want to give you all some feedback since you've worked so hard on this project and overall I'd call it a big success.:0)
ImageAnnotator: view image notes and comments on file description pages
Redirect image links to Commons for files hosted there
Navigation popups: article previews and editing functions pop up when hovering over links
Open external links in a new tab or window
Twinkle: automate common tasks such as reporting vandalism, warning vandals, requesting deletion, welcoming users, and tagging articles (preferences)
Enable the Teahouse "Ask a question" feature
Reference Tooltips: hover over inline citations to see reference information without moving away from the article text (does not work if "Navigation popups" is enabled above)
FormWizard: a wizard for creating and expanding project pages
WATCHLIST
Geonotice: display notices on your watchlist about events in your region
Display watchlist notices
(This loads the base style for the watchlist. Please do not disable this option.)
Display green collapsible arrows and green bullets for changed pages in your watchlist, page history and recent changes (unavailable with the improved Watchlist user interface)
Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold (see customizing watchlists for more options)
Subtle update marker: Tone down the "Changed since last visit" indicator on history pages. (By default it renders as a green-filled bar, enabling this gadget changes it to green text.)
EDITING
Add two new dropdown boxes below the edit summary box with some useful default summaries
Citation expander: automatically expand and format citations using Citation bot
Syntax highlighter: Alternative to the default coloring of wiki syntax in the edit box (works best in Firefox and works almost all of the time in Chrome and Opera)
HotCat: easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions (example)
Shortdesc helper: easily add and edit page short descriptions
wikEd: alternative full-featured integrated text editor for Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome (documentation)
Yet Another AFC Helper Script: easily review Articles for creation submissions, Files for Upload, redirect and category requests
Form for filing disputes at the dispute resolution noticeboard
CharInsert: add a toolbar under the edit window for quickly inserting wiki markup and special characters
refToolbar: add a "cite" button to the editing toolbar for quick addition of commonly used citation templates
Add extra buttons to the old (non-enhanced) editing toolbar
APPEARANCE
Add an [edit] link for the lead section of a page
Add a clock to the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC and provides a link to purge the current page
MoreMenu: add Page and User dropdown menus to the toolbar with links to common tasks, analytic tools and logs (documentation: Vector, Monobook or Modern)
Change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time (documentation)
Display a floating alert for new talk page messages
Display an assessment of an article's quality in its page header (documentation)
Show radio buttons to switch between views of certain content, such as some maps
SidebarTranslate: display sidebar language links in English
Widen the search box in the Vector skin
Display links to disambiguation pages in orange
Strike out usernames that have been blocked
Improved appearance for mobile, narrow and wide screens (documentation)
XTools: dynamically show statistics about a page's history under the page heading
The link I gave you enables Safemode to the page you visit (it adds safemode=1 to the URL): it disabled every script and gadget you use. The next process is to look for a bug in the console, which is explained on this page.
I can't have access to your Watchlist and all, unless if you give me your password, which is something you mustn't consider (and we won't do).
On my sandbox are two screenshots: (1) When Wikidata is the only box checked; and (2) My usual setting, which is "Unseen changes" being the only box checked.
On Wikidata, it would be extremely helpful to be able to invert the filter for "Tag:Widar [1.4]", but I'm not able to find a way to do it. If you go to the normal Recent Changes there, you'll see looooaaads of edits with this tag, so being able remove only them would help significantly with making RC more useful.
We are looking for the best solution about excluding tags from a query. Please comment the options provided, or add your thoughts on the Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174349#5480197
I think that it would be useful if the latest revision filter also showed revisions that would be the latest if it didn't count edits from the same user as being the latest revision. The point would be so that vandals couldn't make a random useful edit to make it harder for people to find their vandalism.
I'd like to have some control of the range for the "experience" levels. I'm an experienced editor creating a standalone wiki. It's not helpful to have the "only" 160+ contributions I've made so far to be lumped in with my users who are working with a wiki for the first time. Even less helpful to think that the arbitrary number of 500 is what I need to attain to bump me into the "experienced" level.
Either allow these categories to exclude administrators by option, or allow administrators to adjust the scoring ranges in a way that gives them a useful filter.
Defining thresholds is probably doable in your wiki's configuration file. @Roan Kattouw (WMF) will know more about it.
Filter users is not a feature we are considering for now. Developments are made in priority for Wikimedia wikis, and we are really concerned by filtering by users being used to stalk at people. The only way to filter users is by the number of edits, by thresholds.
Is there a way to be able to filter out specific tags? This would be very useful, occasionally in my watchlist there will be an influx of AWB edits (i.e. cleaning up typos in articles). I would like to be able to filter out edits with the AWB tag in order to see all other changes (as far as I'm aware this isn't currently possible).
We are looking for the best solution about excluding tags from a query. Please comment the options provided, or add your thoughts on the Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174349#5480197
Commons has a lot of edits tagged with "QuickCategories [1.0]" which I don't need to see in my watchlist. I seem to be able to use the filters to see ''only'' those edits tagged with QuickCategories, but I can't figure out how to subtract them from my watch list. Perhaps this is already possible, but if not, it would be a useful feature. Thanks. - Themightyquill (talk) 10:07, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
It is not possible at the moment to select a few tags to exclude. The workaround is to select all tags, remove the ones you don't want to see manually and save the query for later reuse. It is far from ideal.
The Growth team has put this feature on their roadmap for this current quarter. I've asked for updates on Phabricator.
We are looking for the best solution about excluding tags from a query. Please comment the options provided, or add your thoughts on the Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174349#5480197
yes, indeed: but all our filters are designed to filter potentially problematic edits... many edits I want to see are not tagged because they are not problematic, so...
-> just did what you propose... and got absolutely no answer - that's a good sign: it means we do not have a lot of really problematic contributors ^^
but that is not what I was hoping for... just wanted all edits except those AWB that are made by one of our admins...
well, we'll have to wait for a solution from our dear devs ;p
We are looking for the best solution about excluding tags from a query. Please comment the options provided, or add your thoughts on the Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174349#5480197
I notice that since you introduced these filters I cannot see any more my own contributions at swwiki - until I take out the first filter "Human (not bots)". Is this supposed to be the case?
2. I just was asked by my co-admin why my contribution at swwiki was not visible to him under "Recebt changes"
3. But I can see a recent contribution by myself at enwiki
The reason might be that I got somehow classified as bot as I recognize now thar (when I take out the first filter) my contributions at swwiki show an "r", which is explained as being a bot. How does this come about? Anything to do with me being admin an bureaucrat at swwiki? To the best of my knowledge I never did anything to be a bot. ~~~~
09:11, 4 Julai 2019 Kipala (Majadiliano | michango) changed group membership for Kipala from mrasimu na mkabidhi to mrasimu, mkabidhi, boti, interface administrator, mwanzilishaji wa akaunti, IP block exempt na mtumiaji aliyethibitishwa
You may remove yourself from bots by unticking "boti" and then saving, then it should be gone.
You did so after your last change. The "r" flag is irrevokable and will stay with all your past changes. Note that this has nothing to do with those filters.
