Template talk:Watchlist summary

Query

Hi. I left a message at Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard#Reminding_a_VisualEditor-related_appointment. earlier this month. Can someone tell me whether my proposal is feasible? Thank you, --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 14:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Refresh

Can we remove some of the closed or dormant RfC discussions from this template please? MSGJ (talk) 11:42, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Removed the closed one. --Rschen7754 15:55, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Can you remove the given name one and a more recent one instead? --- Jura 07:57, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

But the RfC is still open. Is it okay to remove an open RfC? Also there are seven more recent RfCs. Which should I add? (By the way, you can do it yourself.) Matěj Suchánek (talk) 08:13, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Given that it's a selection, I suppose one can. I updated the PfD ones as well. It's a bit odd that we have property deletions, but not proposals. Supposedly the later are harder to select from. --- Jura 08:25, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

Categorization

{{Edit request}} Please categorize this template! --Kaganer (talk) 23:12, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

 Done Added Category:Templates. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Changing the format of this summary to use {{Display/watchlist}}

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T213012

Given Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2018/12#Watchlist_notices:_let_users_dismiss_these_notifications I propose that we move to a different format for the watchlist summary, using {{Display/watchlist}} which expires and lets users dismiss notifications that they have already seen. That would involve changing our workflows: instead of updating pages like {{Watchlist summary/PFD}} to add new properties for deletions (for instance), we would add one {{Display/watchlist}} to {{Watchlist summary}}. That would have the advantage of letting users dismiss these notifications. The only item that would be hard to convert to {{Display/watchlist}} would be the summary of property proposals - we could either keep it as it is or simply remove it (I do not think we want to advertise each property proposal with a {{Display/watchlist}} separately, there are too many of these.).

Pinging the editors who recently updated these summaries: Rschen7754, Pasleim, Matěj Suchánek − Pintoch (talk) 20:31, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Sounds good but I think there should be a mockup first. --Rschen7754 00:52, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

@Rschen7754: makes sense. Here is a proposal: User:Pintoch/WatchlistSummaryMock. A few remarks:

• It would be good to translate the "New request for comment" and "New property for deletion", but I am not well versed enough in the localization system to make it work with templates so far.
• I have kept the existing summary for property proposals: I am not sure if this is really useful (as far as I am concerned this is a waste of space, but others probably use it). Another option would be to add watchlist notices for individual proposals (probably excluding external-ids).
• We should decide on the expiration time for RFCs and PFDs. I was thinking about something like a week or two, maybe? This is something we can adjust once we get a better picture of the sort of traffic we get;
• We probably want to have a bot updating these things for us: for each new RFC and PFD, add the corresponding watchlist message after a few days (to avoid spreading vandalism in a highly visible location).

− Pintoch (talk) 23:40, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I guess I was expecting a dismiss link of some sort, not something based on automatic cookies. Am I missing something? --Rschen7754 18:52, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Rschen7754: The dismiss link will only appear when the generated wikicode is displayed on the actual watchlist, thanks to a javascript gadget (that we need to activate). In the meantime the move still lets us make the messages expire automatically after a delay. I have added the relevant phabricator task to this thread. − Pintoch (talk) 23:34, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek, Lymantria, Nikki: as interface admins, could you please have a look at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213012? Thanks! − Pintoch (talk) 10:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Created MediaWiki:Gadget-WatchlistNotice.js (Copied from Commons). Lymantria (talk) 11:57, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Remove old RFCs

{{Edit request}} The first two RFCs in the notice were closed back in March, and should probably be removed. Vahurzpu (talk) 21:09, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

 Done by Mahir256. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:24, 8 May 2021 (UTC)