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Adding a tickbox to only show the edits that are the most recent

G'day, I do frequent the recent changes page a fair bit but am always manually checking if the listed edits have a [rollback] tag as around 90%+ edits that are not the most recent are because they have already been reverted / resolved. Can this become an actual function to enable to hide non-current edits? I feel it would be useful for other edittors without Rollback permissions or another alternative — IVORK _Discuss 04:29, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Click 'diff' or 'hist' to open in a new tab please

I've been monitoring Recent Changes for some time now, and I would really welcome not having to right-click either 'diff' or 'hist' each time to get the results to display in a new tab. A simple mouse click ought to do it. It seems very unlikely that editors reviewing Recent Changes would want to intentionally leave that page, only to return and wait for their settings to reload after each check. So a simple click to open either a new tab or a new widow would be a very welcome enhancement to the interface. Nick Moyes (talk) 23:09, 10 June 2018 (UTC)  

• Support, but for the time being you can middle click on a mouse to open any link in a new tab. Yeenosaurus (talk) 🍁 04:46, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Span markup causing lint error and suppressing display

Prior to the two edits of Roan Kattouw (WMF) of 6 December 2017, the wikitext was

This is a list of [[Help:Recent changes|recent changes]] to pages linked from a specified page (or to members of a specified category).<span id="mw-specialpage-summary-hidegreen"> Changes to pages on your watchlist are shown with a <span style="color:darkgreen; font-weight:bold;">green</span> bullet.</span>

displaying as

This is a list of recent changes to pages linked from a specified page (or to members of a specified category). Changes to pages on your watchlist are shown with a green bullet.

Following those two edits, the wikitext is

Enter a page name to see changes on pages linked to or from that page. (To see members of a category, enter Category:Name of category). <span id="mw-wlheader-showupdated">Changes to pages on your Watchlist are shown<span id="mw-wlheader-bold"> in <strong>bold</strong></span><span id="mw-wlheader-green"> with a <span style="color:darkgreen; font-weight:bold;">green</span> bullet</span>.

displaying as

Enter a page name to see changes on pages linked to or from that page. (To see members of a category, enter Category:Name of category). Changes to pages on your Watchlist are shown in bold with a green bullet.

There are two problems.

1. There is a missing end tag lint error for <span> because there are 4 <span> and only 3 </span>. The missing </span> could presumably go at the end.
2. the <span id="...">...</span> markup suppresses display. At least in my universe, all I see is

Enter a page name to see changes on pages linked to or from that page. (To see members of a category, enter Category:Name of category).

This is bizarre. What is going on? —Anomalocaris (talk) 10:04, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

(clarification: this is about MediaWiki:Recentchangeslinked-summary, whose talk page redirects here for some reason)

@Anomalocaris: Whoops, sorry about the missing </span> tag. I've fixed it, thanks for pointing it out.

As for the markup suppressing the display, what's going on here is that the sentences in the span tags are only visible if you've got certain gadgets enabled. For example, if you have the "Display green collapsible arrows" gadget enabled, then MediaWiki:Gadget-WatchlistGreenIndicators.css will cause the text about green bullets to be shown, and if you have the "Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold" gadget enabled, then MediaWiki:Gadget-WatchlistChangesBold.css will cause the text about bolding to be shown. If you have neither of those enabled, MediaWiki:Gadget-WatchlistBase.css hides all of these spans. This way, the text matches the features you have enabled: if your watchlist is configured not to show green bullets, you also don't see the part of the message that explains what the green bullets mean. Hope that makes sense, and happy to answer any follow-up questions. --Roan Kattouw (WMF) (talk) 00:25, 7 May 2019 (UTC)