Topic on Talk:Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T167656 Resolved

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T177281

Issue

It is not possible to distinguish, differentiate or filter redirects. They are often represented as "new pages".

As Topic:Tufk8a94hsznhm0o is a harder solution a good measure for now is to simply style them differently.

Proposed solution

Add a legend ("↳") with a marker to denote the redirect. Maybe with css like below:

.mw-redirect.mw-changeslist-title::before  {
   content: '↳';
}

Sidenote: While it is currently not possible to filter them, it is still possible to hide the results containing them using a bit of javascript. Maybe that's a good enough workaround until a better solution comes along.

I've created a ticket.

One solution to this problem is to automatically tag them. It seems likely that Extension:Abusefilter can do this easily, and it should be even easier for mediawiki itself to do so:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73236

This would allow highlighting to work perfectly without any special hacks, and would allow filtering by tags in any special page that supports it. It would also make it possible to style the whole row differently. Of course it still needs an improvement of grouping Mediawiki core tags separately ( so users can find it easily) from the rest as described previously .