Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Search/for logged in users: if you go to a certain page multiple times it shows up automatically

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for logged in users: if you go to a certain page multiple times it shows up automatically

Problem: needing to type the same long title a ridiculous number of times
Who would benefit: all users who need to go to the same page multiple times
Proposed solution: a user history section and having pages show up by relevance
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Seak knowlage (talk) 20:50, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This is a request for a "recently-viewed pages" feature, with weighting by the number of visits, yes? That would be nice. Johnbod (talk) 19:31, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It can be collapsed, when not used.--BoldLuis (talk) 18:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Imetsia (talk) 18:55, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support This would make anti-vandalism patrol a lot easier as well by reducing the number of tabs we need to manage. ThadeusOfNazereth (talk) 19:32, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NGC 54 (talk / contribs) 19:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ...Or if that page appears in your watchlist. I definitely support that feature. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 20:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pmau (talk) 21:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good idea شادي (talk) 22:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 23:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Eric0892 (talk) 01:09, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support BALA. R^Talk 01:29, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 02:06, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I would support this if were based on watchlist rather than page viewing history. Otherwise, we'll end up needing a whole new interface for editing and purging our page viewing history. (Imagine you're about to give a Wikipedia presentation to 1000 people at Wikimania and you recently had to revert vandalism at erotic asphyxiation.) Kaldari (talk) 02:33, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Baltakatei (talk) 16:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose it seems practical at first, but that could get really irritating if I only want to check something out a few times and it gets in my way when I'm looking to go somewhere else. Tyrekecorrea (talk) 18:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support BoldLuis (talk) 18:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I do not believe we should be tracking user behaviour in this much detail, for privacy and data rights reasons. I don't quite know what information the WMF currently gleans from us but I would discourage them storing more data without good reason. Kaldari points out one unintended consequence, but I argue that a much more common one would be that of a parent going on a shared family computer and learning via this mechanism that their child is gay or trans or anything else that a person's reading history tells us about them that they wouldn't expect another person using the same device to discover by accident. — Bilorv (talk) 23:58, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, per Bilorv and Tyrekecorrea, and because this is redundant with browser bookmarking, and with just creating a user-spaced favorites list. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 08:14, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Ok if it is based on the watchlist, not our habits TechAcquisitor (talk) 19:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment After voting has ended: this is a Web browser feature and there is no need and not really any significant use to redundantly add this to Wikipedia itself: if you type the title into your URL bar it will autocomplete it. If you're losing your Web browser history or whatever you could add the page to your bookmarks but that is just an alternative that isn't needed. --Prototyperspective (talk) 17:50, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]