I find this filter very annoying - changes aren't saved, so I have to click through options every time I go to my watchlist. Is there anyway to remove it so I can see ALL the changes on my watchlist as used to be the case? Or at least to easily hide, say, bot edits?
Topic on Talk:Edit Review Improvements/New filters for edit review
You can turn it off in preferences. You can also bookmark filters, see Help:New filters for edit review/Bookmarking. You can hide bot edits by choosing Human (not bot).
It is fine that I can turn it off in preferences, but this new filter loads really slow on my site and I'd rather it was not the default, but that you had to turn it ON in preferences if you wanted to use it. Any way of doing that?
@Tenzel Kim, you mean on a personal website? If so, it is doable in the website's configuration file.
Yeah, on a personal website. What exactly should I be looking for? I have tried finding some code that I can disable but haven't had any luck.
Add the following to LocalSettings.php:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['wlenhancedfilters-disable'] = 1;
This will change the default preferences so that the "Use non-JavaScript interface" checkbox on the Watchlist tab of the preferences page is checked by default, and users can uncheck it to enable the new filters.
If you also/instead want to disable the new filters for RecentChanges by default, you can use:
$wgDefaultUserOptions['rcenhancedfilters-disable'] = 1;