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Exclude edits by users

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DonSimon (talkcontribs)

How to exclude edits by users (let from some certain vector of users) from search view via cirrus?

It'd be useful for patrolling recent changes when you don't want see 2 most active users right now, for example.

PerfektesChaos (talkcontribs)

Unsatisfying answer: Search can analyze content only, but not metadata.

  • The adjoined metadata of a page would be timestamp, user, summary etc.
  • The content is the visible text of the rendered page, or source text of the page itself without transclusions.

For recent changes a search within all articles or pages within the wiki is the wrong tool.

  • There might be some gadgets already existing, which will filter the recent change list by a vector of trusted users, to focus on less well known people. At least a gadget programmer could easily remove those by screen grabbing. This one could do that, among many other things, but is not focussing on such list of trusted users.
  • By MediaWiki software there are options on watchlist and recent changes (which are based on the identical software) to suppress bots, registered users, or minor edits (unsafe).
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