Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Categories/Improve tracking of categorization changes
Improve tracking of categorization changes
- Problem: For a few years, category changes have had dedicated entries in recent changes and watchlist. This is useful for watchlist – when you watch a category and have category changes enabled, you can see recent additions and removals to the category. For recent changes, this isn't much useful as it lists changes to any category. For Special:RecentChangesLinked ("related changes"), it only shows additions to the category. It's because when you remove a page from the category, it is no longer "linked" and thus it isn't listed in the related changes anymore. I believe this isn't logical as this change is pretty much related. Additionally, there are some annoying display issues which could be fixed as part of this wish.
- Proposed solution:
- Who would benefit: Wiki gnomes checking for mistakes, patrollers checking for vandalism, wikis with complex categorizations
- More comments: All of these could also have a filter for additions/removals only.
- Phabricator tickets: phab:T89582, phab:T130134 (general problem); phab:T126851, phab:T148533, phab:T270662, phab:T270774 (display issues)
- Proposer: Matěj Suchánek (talk) 20:13, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- I have basically re-purposed this my wish from the previous survey. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 20:13, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support on the concept, keeping track over Commons Categories is especially hard. For example, I may remember I put some picture in some category, but didn't add it to my Watchlist. Someone else then moves it to another category (mostly this improves categorization, so no complaint on that), but I'll never find that image again. And sometimes I want to know who removed 400 files from an observed category on my watchlist, and where these files went... again no way for me to track this. --Enyavar (talk) 10:15, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
- A useful improvement I'd support. --Achim55 (talk) 19:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- I have encountered some behaviors similar to destruction, that is, remove all pages in a category, and then request to delete the category page, which is not easy to restore. And only watching the corresponding category can check the membership changes of this category, and it is limited by the limit of the number of recent changes displayed. A separate view page to show the changing history of category's members is useful. --113.99.12.198 10:41, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- Support * Pppery * it has begun 18:34, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support SD0001 (talk) 18:57, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Arnd (talk) 19:47, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Bluerasberry (talk) 19:53, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Vis M (talk) 20:58, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support EpicPupper (talk) 22:40, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Izno (talk) 22:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 23:03, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Sakretsu (炸裂) 23:56, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Daud Iffa (talk) 23:58, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 01:11, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Shizhao (talk) 03:42, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Steven Sun (talk) 04:55, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aca (talk) 12:36, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support JAn Dudík (talk) 20:14, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Douglasfugazi (talk) 21:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 07:41, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 08:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 11:08, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Geraki TL 14:25, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 21:46, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nw520 (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support β16 - (talk) 10:43, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 20:39, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Shushugah (talk) 21:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --MarieVirtuElle (talk) 01:34, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Paucabot (talk) 06:24, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Alice Redhotroof (talk) 11:13, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Rzuwig► 11:59, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support - Darwin Ahoy! 19:13, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support If one editor empties a category and immediately nominates it, that's traceable via contribs. But if he leaves it empty and another editor later nominates it, there's no trail at present. Fayenatic london (talk) 13:54, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support HHill (talk) 15:03, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 03:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 05:15, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support DALIBRI (talk) 09:05, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Luan (discussão) 14:07, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Uanfala (talk) 13:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support * Mustafdesam * it is 13:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support KnowledgeablePersona (talk) 23:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — Bilorv (talk) 11:45, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Andrei Romanenko (talk) 02:07, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Makes sense it needs to be fixed. Ffffrr (talk) 06:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Facenapalm (talk) 15:05, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Nehaoua (talk) 16:16, 11 February 2022 (UTC)