Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Categories/Improve tracking of categorization changes/Proposal

  • Problem: For a few years, category changes have had dedicated entries in recent changes and watchlist. This is useful for watchlist – when you watch a category and have category changes enabled, you can see recent additions and removals to the category. For recent changes, this isn't much useful as it lists changes to any category. For Special:RecentChangesLinked ("related changes"), it only shows additions to the category. It's because when you remove a page from the category, it is no longer "linked" and thus it isn't listed in the related changes anymore. I believe this isn't logical as this change is pretty much related. Additionally, there are some annoying display issues which could be fixed as part of this wish.
  • Proposed solution:
  • Who would benefit: Wiki gnomes checking for mistakes, patrollers checking for vandalism, wikis with complex categorizations
  • More comments: All of these could also have a filter for additions/removals only.
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T89582, phab:T130134 (general problem); phab:T126851, phab:T148533, phab:T270662, phab:T270774 (display issues)
  • Proposer: Matěj Suchánek (talk) 20:13, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]