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Subject:    [MediaWiki-l] Enhanced recent changes will be default in MediaWiki 1.25.0
From:       "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-10-16 23:00:48
Message-ID: 54404E20.5040501 () gmail ! com
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MediaWiki 1.25.0 (planned release 2015-05-27) will use the "enhanced 
recent changes" and "extended watchlist" options by default. The change 
doesn't affect Wikimedia wikis.

Explanation at 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25#Enhanced_recent_changes ; 
I'd particularly appreciate help in
* updating docs around (with appropriate {{MW version}}),
* adding a quick gif to show the (un)collapsing of one row on a 
representative Special:Watchlist view,
* (ideally) re-writing the Meta-Wiki help page from scratch on 
mediawiki.org so that it can be translated.

Nemo

P.s.: I copy the current text from the page here as well.

MediaWiki now uses by default the extended watchlist and so called 
enhanced recent chances (preference "Group changes by page in recent 
changes and watchlist"), which received several improvements in 
MediaWiki 1.25.

This means that Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist show all the 
changes to each page in a given day, sorted by page rather than 
chronologically. Changes to each page are then collapsed by default and 
a compact overview is shown, with links to collated diffs and counts of 
each user's actions. Full activity for an individual page can then be 
shown with a single click.

Users will no longer need to know in detail how a single change was 
chosen for display in order to figure out what else may have happened to 
the page that day, nor to scan a long list of non-contiguous lines on 
the screen in order to get a complete picture. The change is part of 
MediaWiki's evolution towards an interface which is more discoverable 
and less cluttered by default, while equally easy to quickly access in 
full, with the help of JavaScript. However, the (grouped) layout is an 
improvement for non-JavaScript users as well.

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