Please help shorten FileImporter message in vi.wikipedia. We have a lof of files to move to Commons but the space in Recent changes need to be used for other tasks.
Topic on Help talk:Extension:FileImporter
I'm sorry, can you please explain in more detail what the problem is? Do you have an example or an URL to look at? I'm not aware of any space constrains on Special:RecentChanges. The number of entries shown is not limited by what FileImporter does.
For example: This will show up on Special:RecentChanges: Violetbonmua Thảo luận đóng góp cấm đã xóa trang “Tập tin:Hoalanvang.jpg” (This file is now on Wikimedia Commons as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoalanvang.jpg (moved with FileImporter).)
This is a very long message. Can you help shorten the message to: Violetbonmua Thảo luận đóng góp cấm đã xóa trang “Tập tin:Hoalanvang.jpg” (c:File:Hoalanvang.jpg), or whatever shorter?
Why? I seriously don't think this is a "long" message. All the information in this message is crucial. It might be possible to find a wording that's 2 or 3 characters shorter. But why? What's the problem?
I agree that all the information should be there. The suggestion is to change from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoalanvang.jpg to c:File:Hoalanvang.jpg
That will be 30? characters shorter and it will also make it possible to click the link.
I have been moving thousands of files from vi.wiki to Commons and one day I was asked if the message could be shorter.
On most normal screen, it tooks 2 lines to display this message. Some files have longer name so maybe it tooks 3 lines. We have thousand files need to be moved so I wish the message could be as short as possible (within 1 line only).
I'm afraid I still don't understand the issue. What exactly happens on Special:RecentChanges when many exports have been made? Why not use the filters on top of Special:RecentChanges?
I can set the filters for myself but it won't apply for everyone who is monitoring all the changes on Specia:RecentChanges for possible vandalism. If I use FileImporter to move 200 files to Commons, all they can see is me doing that.
But this will be the same, no matter how long the summary line is.
Changing the links to use the shorter interwiki link syntax is something we are aware of, see phab:T189196. However, it turns out this is not easy to do. As of now, we don't have the capacity to work on this ticket.