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Visual diff - Suggestion: Add a message for "invisible" changes to page settings that aren't shown in the html diff

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197.218.81.105 (talkcontribs)

Problem 

As a user, I want to see some visible confirmation that I've changed some setting of the page such as "edit links".

Steps to reproduce 

  1. Click the following link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit 
  2. Click the hamburger menu 
  3. Click page settings , advanced page settings
  4. Change a page setting, e.g. click checkbox "Show a tab on this page to add a new section" 
  5. Click apply 
  6. Click publish changes, "review your changes", and visual  

Expected 

Sidebar shows that a page property has changed.

Actual 

No visible sign that anything changed, or sometimes a green block.

Proposed solution

Add a message to the sidebar in the changes dialog indicating the changes, e.g. "Page settings changed - "Added : Show a tab on this page to add a new section. Removed: ..." . Alternatively just show the changes, e.g. add a sidebar, or add edit links to each heading, etc.

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The same thing happens when most (all?) other page settings are changed. This includes advanced page settings.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I believe that this is planned. There are still a lot of features that the devs want to add to this tool. I'm not sure if it will specifically take the form of a sidebar, but something needs to be shown.

ESanders (WMF) (talkcontribs)

It is - although page settings will be a little further down our to-do list that some other things, as they are a more of a power user feature, so most people editing them will be happy to switch to a wikitext diff.