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

The filters are great, but I have a couple of suggestions

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MrX (talkcontribs)

The filters are very useful. I particularly like the highlighting feature, however it would be nice to either have more color options, or the option to choose foreground and background colors. It would also be nice to be able to customize the colors.

One issue that I did notice using Chrome on MacOS (all current), is that changing the highlight color closes the filter dialog. That is obviously undesirable behavior.

197.218.90.47 (talkcontribs)

Work on this seems to have ended, and even if it didn't it is doubtful that they'll add more colors or even make it possible to customize them due to accessibility and complexity concerns. It is possible for individual users to customize colors using CSS:

.mw-rcfilters-highlight-color-c1 {
    background-color:blue !important;
}
.mw-rcfilters-highlight-color-c2 {
    background-color:pink !important;
}
.mw-rcfilters-highlight-color-c3 {
    background-color:brown !important;
}
.mw-rcfilters-highlight-color-c4 {
    background-color:purple !important;
}
MrX (talkcontribs)

Thank you for your message. It did occur to me that I could customize the colors in CSS, but it would still leave only four color options (plus the default anchor color). I'm not really expecting the developers to make this change, but perhaps it will be taken into consideration for future development.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Thank you for your feedback, @MrX!

> One issue that I did notice using Chrome on MacOS (all current), is that changing the highlight color closes the filter dialog. That is obviously undesirable behavior.

It is. Do you have that issue when you use this link (it uses safemode, to disable possible conflicting scripts)?

Concerning having more colors than the 5 ones, that request is made time to time. On which cases do you need more colors?

We are declining it for two reasons:

  • highlight is supposed to be used with some active filters. While filters narrow results, highlight is set to emphase just a few elements. I've noticed that people requesting more colors usually don't use the filters to narrow down results.
  • colors used are accessible, so as their combinations. Add more colors would require a big effort to check all combinations.
MrX (talkcontribs)

Thank you for your reply @Trizek (WMF). The safemode link exhibits the same dialog-closing behavior.

I understand your point about combining filters with highlighting. I guess I'm trying to get as much information from a default filter set so that I don't have to remember to change filter sets.

One more thing I would like to give feedback about is the amount of space that is taken up by the filter widget when several filters and highlights are selected. It would be extremely helpful if the widget could be collapsed and remain in that state until clicked.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Concerning the menu issue, do you have it on a different browser?

Concerning the sets of filters, have you tried the bookmarking options? They allow you to switch very easily between filters sets you define.

Thank you for your feedback concerning the space. If the selected filters are only taking one lines height on your screen, we have measured that they take less space than the previous design. How ever, a more compact mode has been considered for watchlists. IT may indeed be interesting for recent changes as well.

MrX (talkcontribs)

Yes, same problem on Firefox 57.0 and Safari 11.0.2.

No I have not tried the bookmarking options, but I will have a look.

My filters take three lines on my screen (4 filters and 14 highlights). That leaves about 1/3 of the screen height for the watchlist itself. I have modified my CSS to make the widget much smaller, but it's still distracting.

Trizek (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I can reproduce the issue you have. How ever, I don't remember if that's a feature or a bug. :) I've reported it for investigation and get a reply.

> My filters take three lines on my screen (4 filters and 14 highlights).

That's indeed taking a lot of space. Please tell me if you manage to refine the filters you use with bookmarks.

I use those bookmarks on my volunteer capacity for specific tasks I don't do at the same time (finding last edits made by newcomers but not patrolled and find problematic but fixable edits). I'm really more efficient that way. I let global overview of recent changes to people using specific software (like Huggle).

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JogiAsad (talkcontribs)

I really liked the new filters

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