Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Miscellaneous/Add filters to history pages

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Add filters to history pages

• Problem: On some of the high traffic pages, due to volume of activity, it is difficult to identify true authors or find other editing patterns.
• Who would benefit: Admins and editors investigating page histories.
• Proposed solution: Add ability to filter/sort page histories, by for example:
  • Show/hide IP edits
  • Show/hide reverted edits and their reverts
  • Show/hide banned user edits
  • Show/hide bot edits
  • Show/hide minor edits
  • Show/hide/sort edits by number of bytes added/subtracted
  • Show/hide my edits
  • Sort edits by IP/username
  • Show/hide selected user's edits (if this is deemed uncontroversial)
  • Show/hide deleted edits (for administrators only?)
• More comments: Reposting from 2017 survey
• Phabricator tickets: T18619, T97020
• Proposer: Renata3 (talk) 02:38, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

• Seconded. It could be helpful. --Piotrus (talk) 04:49, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
• Yes, this would be useful. I can't imagine controversy in showing/hiding edits by a specific user as this tool to list edits on a page by a user is linked in the page history on the English Wikipedia, and I believe runs on any Wikimedia project. — Bilorv (talk) 19:32, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
• Very helpful :D HeartGlow30797 (talk) 14:35, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
• Show/hide users marked by templates as having COIs by en:Template:Connected contributor? HLHJ (talk) 03:01, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
• This would probably be the right time to start thinking about MCR filters as well (ie. filter the history based on what slots are changed by each revision). This doesn't seem that important today but will become crucial as MCR gets used more. Tgr (talk) 21:52, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support ValeJappo【〒】 18:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support GeorgHH (talk) 19:03, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Could be convenient. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 19:48, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --NGC 54 (talk / contribs) 19:56, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Martinkunev (talk) 20:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sabas88 (talk) 21:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Jaguar83 (talk) 23:25, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support YFdyh000 (talk) 23:49, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Imetsia (talk) 00:18, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Keepcalmandchill (talk) 02:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Colathewikian (talk) 05:16, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support, sounds useful. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Abductive (talk) 08:57, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Samwalton9 (talk) 09:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Kpjas (talk) 11:32, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Jjkorff (talk) 13:50, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sgd. —Hasley 14:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 15:25, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Zoozaz1 (talk) 17:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tylwyth Eldar (talk) 19:16, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support TheAmerikaner (talk) 20:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support dwf² (talk) 22:59, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support H78c67c (talk) 01:42, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 02:11, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support As an admin, that would be very helpful CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 03:19, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support JPxG (talk) 05:59, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support, strongly. Possibly (talk) 07:06, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Em-mustapha ^{User | talk} 07:09, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support JAn Dudík (talk) 08:31, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:27, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support TohaomgTohaomg (talk) 11:47, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Libcub (talk) 19:35, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 21:30, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Srđan (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Kisnaak (talk) 22:29, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support RSLitman (talk) 02:17, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:54, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Izno (talk) 16:19, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 16:41, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Strong support BoldLuis (talk) 17:22, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Ahecht (TALK
  PAGE) 18:44, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -Xbony2 (talk) 19:37, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. Meiræ 22:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Alaa :)..! 01:19, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support DGG (talk) 01:30, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support WhoAteMyButter (talk) 05:36, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Oh, DrPizza! (talk) 08:02, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I've very much wanted this to follow up on my own edits and to check up on problem editors. -- Beland (talk) 08:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 11:30, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tom Ja (talk) 12:15, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Francois-Pier (talk) 12:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support awesome idea, same filters like recent changes Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 14:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Vincent Simar (talk) 22:57, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support — Bilorv (talk) 23:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Emperork 🐋🐰 00:02, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Steven Sun (talk) 04:47, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Nemo Le Poisson (talk) 10:36, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Incredibly helpful // Lollipoplollipoplollipop :: talk 10:51, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Edgars2007 (talk) 11:06, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- the wub "?!" 18:35, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Sadads (talk) 11:49, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:22, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Michel Bakni (talk) 14:01, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Sudonet (talk) 17:02, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Giraffer (talk) 19:56, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 22:46, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, yes, and more yes. Our current history pages are so barely, marginally useful.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  07:16, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support β₁₆ - (talk) 09:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 13:12, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks, EDG 543 (message me) 15:50, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support SeGiba (talk) 18:12, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Cerme (talk) 23:38, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support – Teratix ₵ 06:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Femkemilene (talk) 11:38, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Trang Oul (talk) 11:40, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support and include ability to search/filter on keywords in edit summaries. Pelagic (talk) 12:54, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ◅ SebastianHelm (talk) 14:09, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support GiFontenelle (talk) 22:00, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Michael Childs (talk) 01:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Utopes (talk) 02:07, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Mmitchell10 (talk) 21:10, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Gikü (talk) 23:09, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Acky69 (talk) 19:56, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support 5910 C (talk) 21:50, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, please! Uanfala (talk) 00:05, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Weak support I have concerns that this might lead to a focus on editors, not edits, and let bad edits slip through automated filtering. HLHJ (talk) 03:01, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Iva (talk) 16:15, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support He's the Billy Australia can't afford (talk) 02:23, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Ahmad^talk 04:25, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support, though sharing HLHJ's first concern. —2d37 (talk) 09:04, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

•  Support :JarrahTree (talk) 09:06, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Please. Also want "Jump to specified year/month". Wotheina (talk) 09:40, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Nachtbold (talk) 12:49, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support EEMIV (talk) 15:10, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Shivanarayana (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Davidwr/talk 16:32, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support aegis maelstrom δ 17:53, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Schniggendiller (talk) 17:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)