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

In most software, a tick box either selects or deselects a particular option: simple. So you'd expect a group with no boxes ticked to be equivalent to selecting none of the options, and you tick one or more of them to add the options you want. In fact, no ticks seems to be the same as all-ticks: ticking a single box in an unticked group surprisingly and without notice deselects all the options other than the one selected.

Now it's true that this is documented half way down the long documentation page, but it should be clear on the face of the controls themselves.

I've also felt this behaviour a little odd.

What would you suggest? :)

Checking the appropriate check boxes by default accompanied by 'Select all' and 'Deselect all' options.

For example, by default results from all Namespaces are shown but none of the boxes are checked. Checking the box for a namespace results in results being only shown for that namespace. In this case, the suggested change would be as follows. Check boxes for all the namespaces should be checked by default and the user could use a combination of 'Select all', 'Deselect all', checking some namespaces to achieve their desired output.

Unfortunately, this seems to result in some added UI elements which might add up to page clutter (the namespace drop down might become over crowded, for example). I don't know how to avoid this though :-)

"Select all" and "Clear all" would be very-very useful. Thank you.

I found this confusing as well. Here's another suggestion for an alternative. Right now, filters are either in an on or off state (represented by a checkbox+light blue background, and no checkbox+white background, respectively). What if there were a third, "default" or "unset" state, with a different visual treatment? If none of the filters in a group are checked, they're all set to the default state. When one of the filters is checked, it gets set to on, and all the others in that group get set to off.

That seems to be a good suggestion too.

Same here. I always check/uncheck boxes expecting a result and I get the opposite result, so maybe it would suffice to invert their behavior: all boxes but bot's edits are checked by default and you uncheck the ones you don't want to be searched.

Some filters are 0/1: get logged-in users versus anonymous. When one option is selected, the other one is faded-out.

Some other are additive: get newcomers + learners. Will it scale for those?

Maybe different graphics would help making thing clearer, for example checkboxes for additive options and switches for either/or options. In addition to automatically check all additive options so that clicking on a checkbox excludes that option from search.