Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Single good way of listing revisions on mobile web

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Thank you

Hey @Janhrach thanks for creating this wish, as it helps us better understand the needs of editors who review other's edits.

I'm curious, in your words, how each of the following tools vary, their primary use cases, and how frequently you use them in your workflow:

- Special:Contributions - The watchlist - Page history JWheeler-WMF (talk) 12:01, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

I use all three tools frequently, every day I edit Wikipedia.

Of course, considering the differences in the use cases, it wouldn't make sense to make them identical (e.g. Special:Contributions doesn't need to show the editor's name). The way they are on desktop is very good. The layout of Special:Contributions is similar to the desktop version of the tools, and therefore useful and clear. There is no need to view the diff, because everything is accessible right in the entry.

The other two tools are relatively similar to each other, so they share their faults. As for page history, I am sometimes interested in the historical revision itself, not the diff. In order to access it, I need to visit the diff first. The same goes if I want to visit the user page of the revision author. Watchlist misses the functionality to go directly to the page history, e.g. when I see that I need to view the whole history to make sense of complex edits going on. Watchlist would also benefit from directly containing links to revisions and their authors, as well as indicating whether the revision is current (as Special:Contributions already does).

Special:Contributions handles the issue of displaying initial revisions neatly. The the text "diff" in the entry is simply not a link. The text of the revision is still accessible by clicking the date. Watchlist is confusing in this case. On the first glance, the entry seems ordinary, but it works completely differently (as I described in the wish). Page history completely fails at this case. It is not possible, in any way, to view the revision text, neither it is possible to visit the user page of the editor without copying their name, and if their name is long, it is not possible to visit their user page at all. It is also not possible to view the edit description. (I am not sure how well watchlist handles long edit descriptions.) Janhrach (talk) 13:01, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

As for use cases, I use Special:Contribtions to learn about editors, as well as to aid reversion of unconstructive edits. I use history to find the origin of problematic content (This doesn't mean bad-faith content only: e.g. when I see a dead bare reference, I need to find when it was added, to find the best archived version. Dead bare references are obviously problematic, but almost never bad-faith.) and to see who and how has edited the page (this is especially interesting regarding pages documenting contemporary historical developments). I check watchlist every time I log in. I watch pages I have edited (to see how my edits are received), as well as pages where I am familiar with the subject enough to comment on others' edits to the pages, and also pages frequently vandalized. Janhrach (talk) 13:19, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

Progress into focus area

Hello @Janhrach! The wish you submitted to the Community Wishlist has progressed into a focus area named “Make it easier for patrollers and other editors to prioritize tasks”. Please review the focus area and give feedback. If you are also ready to support this focus area, you may proceed to vote. Please remember to log in before using the support button. Thank you for submitting this wish once again. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 11:50, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Advanced mobile contributions

"On mobile web (advanced mode disabled), they are confusingly (and needlessly) dissimilar, and only Special:Contributions displays all relevant information."

Is this only a problem with advanced mode disabled? CParle (WMF) (talk) 14:08, 30 May 2025 (UTC)