https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65662
Bug ID: 65662
Summary: multiple new links notification should provide names
of newly linked pages
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Echo
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: jay...@gmail.com
CC: agarr...@wikimedia.org, bs...@wikimedia.org,
dh...@wikimedia.org, legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com,
pandiculat...@gmail.com
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Mobile Platform: ---
If a page has multiple new incoming links from other pages, the Echo UI
notification provides the name of one of the other pages, and offers the user
to look at special:whatlinkshere. It does not provide the names of all of the
pages it is referring to.
I dont find that offer very helpful, as I typically want to review the changes
made to the linking pages, as is quite easy when the notification is for only
one incoming link.
The workflow for one vs multiple incoming links should be roughly the same.
I appreciate the drop down notification is space limited, but maybe the
special:notifications message could explicitly list all of the other pages.
Or the link which currently goes to Whatlinkshere could be changed to a new
'RecentIncomingLinks' page which lists all of the pages relevent to the
notification.
At the very least, I would prefer that the echo notification links to
'RecentChangesLinked' with 'Show changes to pages linked to the given page
instead' to show a list of the diffs that introduced the links that I am being
notified about. Unfortunately that link to RecentChangesLinked would include a
other changes, but it at least sends me to a page where I can determine what
the notification was about.
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