Talk:Community Wishlist/Focus areas/Repetitive tasks

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Community Wishlist/Wishes/Link "diff" and "hist" for category changes on Watchlist RecentChanges - Good idea.

Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo - Having to partially revert is pretty rare and it doesn't cost much time. This would not make any difference to most of our viewers and users.

Community Wishlist/Wishes/Make the pending changes interface better - (2) The CSS issue costs a couple of minutes. (1) is very difficult and there are other areas where dev time is far more needed (sorry pending changes reviewers)

Community Wishlist/Wishes/Mark pages recreated at the already deleted title - should be pretty easy to write a bot for that. Dev time is scarce (for reasons beyond my understanding)

Community Wishlist/Wishes/Massen-Adminaktionen/en - This would save a tiny group of people a small amount of time.

Community Wishlist/Wishes/Stewardship Needed for Adiutor MediaWiki Extension - yet another UI bolted onto the old MediaWiki interface. Appears to be inferior to TWINKLE. Polygnotus (talk) 23:14, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Suggest removing "citation needed"

From personal experience on Wikipedia adding the "citation needed" should not be encouraged as a repetitive task. I didn't see it in any of the wishes either.

Ideally the content needs careful evaluation before "citation needed" is added, particularly a page history search to see if the material was previously cited. It seems after the tag has existed for a while (encouraged by bots tagging the age of the tag) editors feel entitled to remove valid information in a careless manor.

A button for deletion is fine as a repetitive task, the action goes through admin moderation. Commander Keane (talk) 19:35, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/046440.html Polygnotus (talk) 10:07, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

I support removing that part but only because none of the wishes is about or including that. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:38, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Potential wish to add

This focus area is a bit confusing to me, but a potential wish to add is Gender marking in job titles tool (currently archived). The wish seems to be wanting a find and replace tool with editor oversight over each change, with a nice accessible interface. Although targeted at Russian Wikipedia (this gender issue appears alongside "don't use profanity" in the guideline) this tool would have wider implications. Commander Keane (talk) 19:47, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

It's archived and I think for good enough reason. A broader wish could be created separately that is about what you described. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:39, 15 November 2024 (UTC)