Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Archive/Create a history of previously viewed pages

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Create a history of previously viewed pages

NoN Merged with Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Notifications, Watchlists and Talk Pages/History of all pages I've read while I'm logged in

  • Problem: Yes, you can watch all the Wikipedia articles you've been in your normal navigator's history, but it can be quite confusing to trace a continuity in your journey into the website. Besides, other also visited websites may complicate the process, and if you've searched in not one, but several devices, you'll be completely lost. Even there can be some pages missing. The biggest inconveniences are when someone tries to search for an article that found interesting but immediately forgot, and when he finds an article with many visible mistakes, but thinks to edit it later, believing he will remember it (you can mark it on your computer's favorites list, but anyaway).
  • Proposed solution: Create a private history only for registered users (so that it can't be seen by anyone but the user) that collects in chronological order all the articles and files that has visited.
  • Who would benefit: People who want to remind those frogotten articles, if we consider the idea of a private history for that specific use.
  • More comments:
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  • Proposer: De un millón (talk) 10:48, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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