[Wikitech-l] New Filters on Watchlist to graduate out of beta soon

Collaboration team [1] is announcing plans to graduate the New Filters for Edit Review [2] out of beta on Watchlist by late June or early July. After launch, this suite of improved edit-search tools will be standard on all wikis. Individuals who prefer the existing Watchlist interface will be able to opt out by means of a new preference. The New Filters introduce an easier yet more powerful filtering interface [3] to Watchlist as well as a whole list of filters and other tools that make reviewing edits more efficient, including live page updating [4], user-defined highlighting [5], the ability to create special-purpose filter sets and save them for re-use [6] and (on wikis with ORES enabled [7]) predictive filters powered by machine learning [8]. If you’re not familiar with the New Filters, please give them a try on Watchlist by activating the New Filters beta feature. In particular, it would be very helpful if you could test the new functionality with your local gadgets and configurations. The documentation pages [9] provide guidance on how to use the many new tools you’ll discover. Over 70,000 people have activated the New Filters beta, which has been in testing on Watchlist for more than eight months. We feel confident that the features are stable and effective, but if you have thoughts about these tools or the beta graduation, please let us know on the project talk page [10]. In particular, tell us if you know of a special incompatibility or other issue that makes the New Filters problematic on your wiki. We’ll examine the blocker and may delay release on your wiki until the issue can be addressed. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edi… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edi… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review#live> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Bookmarking> [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES> [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters> [9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quick_tour <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quick_tour>[10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_fo… <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review> _____________________ Joe Matazzoni Product Manager, Collaboration Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."