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Modification of RecentChanges button (Community Wishlist/W202)

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I am proposing a quality of life modification of the button on Special:RecentChanges in the top-right corner that allows changing maximum edits and timespan. Per current behaviour the button always closes after making a change, which is mildly annoying when changing from 50 edits/7 days to 500 edits/30 days on especially smaller wikis as users need to click twice the same popup window to change the same thing. I believe a user should be able to change both parameters and then click outside of the popup window. It is a small change, but a good quality of life improvement to all users who use RecentChanges on daily basis and is their primary tool dealing with vandalism.

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Unassigned

Type of wish
System change
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Affected users

patrollers, global rollbackers, sysops

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Other details
  • Created: 12:22, 3 August 2024
  • Last updated: 17:42, 25 February 2026
  • Author: A09 (talk)
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Supporters of this wish
Support A09 (talk) 12:22, 3 August 2024
Support Pppery (talk) 16:27, 10 October 2025
Support Reduces interaction cost. Nardog (talk) 10:11, 22 October 2025