Last modified: 2013-12-17 18:35:41 UTC
In Special:Watchlist, the "Show/Hide logged-in users" functionality should say "Show/Hide registered users" since this feature is not actually showing or hiding logged-in users but showing and hiding registered users. A registered user may or may not be logged-in and that information is private.
Hello, I am a beginner and would like to work on this bug. Can somebody assign it to me?
(In reply to comment #1) > I am a beginner and would like to work on this bug. Can somebody assign it to > me? Sure, done.
Where can I find the codebase? I tried https://git.wikimedia.org/summary/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FSemanticWatchlist.git but could not find the code.
This is nothing semantic but MediaWiki core functionality in includes/specials/SpecialWatchlist.php , probably the rcshowhideliu parameter.
sakshi: are you still working on this?
Since sakshi hasn't responded within a month, I think it is okay to assume he is not working on it. It'd be nice to get this bug fixed. It's too bad a fix for this didn't make it in alongside the new Watchlist legend feature.
Change 102019 had a related patch set uploaded by MegaAlex: Change message 'rcshowhideliu' to match its actual functionality https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/102019
(In reply to comment #0) > In Special:Watchlist, the "Show/Hide logged-in users" functionality should > say > "Show/Hide registered users" since this feature is not actually showing or > hiding logged-in users but showing and hiding registered users. You look confused here: it's not doing either; it hides/shows *edits* by registered users, while they were logged in. Maybe we instead need to clarify that the selectors are about edits? The confusion in comment 0 may be sign of a more general misunderstanding. We currently say "minor edits", "patrolled edits" and "my edits"; we could also say "automated edits", "anonymous edits" and "logged-in edits" instead of "bots", "anonymous users" and "logged-in users". > A registered > user may or may not be logged-in and that information is private. Sure, but if they don't login we will never know that the edit was made by them, while if they login the information will be stored forever. For a largely surreal discussion on such semantics, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Anonymous_editor_acquisition#Anonymous_vs_Unregistered
Change 102019 merged by jenkins-bot: Change message 'rcshowhideliu' to match its actual functionality https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/102019
