Editing Improvements & Changes

It’s only 3 rows. Doesn’t really seem deserving of a scroll unless it becomes bigger than that.

For the pagination of edit history, can you make it go from newest to oldest instead of oldest to newest? When I first saw it, it was confusing.

The pagination is set this way on purpose so once an edit is on page 1 it will always be on page 1, just like the pagination on this thread. Otherwise edits would be pushed to another page after more are done and the links would constantly change. Clicking on the edit history will always take you to the newest edits but still show the newest edit at the top, just like before.

Edited by kory on Dec 24th 2023 at 8:31:10 AM

How would I go about viewing the pre-move history of a page which has been moved? That seems to be the major issue with this new history setup, as I can't find one and it's starting to cause problems with the Spell My Name With An S cleanup.

I'm not sure what you mean. Spell My Name With An S had its history moved to Inconsistent Spelling, so its older edit history can be found on that page. Does that answer your question?

Doesn't work when searching history, though.

What specifically are you trying to search for?

My own edits on that page.

I see them.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Main.InconsistentSpelling&troper_name=bwburke94&edit_content=

Seems this has been fixed, then.

It was never broken.

I think the OP should be updated at least, for the "Changes made so far" part

Include these under that section:

• Pagination for history pages
• Search by troper for history pages
• Search by content for history pages
• Edit History Link Fix
• Additional Checkbox system of common edit reasons that auto populate input field (and/or leave custom reason)

Edited by AudioSpeaks2 on Jan 17th 2024 at 10:41:44 PM

Some possible new edit reasons, consolidated from the wishlish:

• Fixed Formatting.
  • This might replace the "Fixed Indentation" edit reason, as indentation is one aspect of formatting
• Link some editing reasons to articles, for instance
  • Natter -> Natter
  • "Not enough context (ZCE)" -> "Example does not sufficiently explain how it applies"
  • Crosswicking -> Crosswicking
  • Alphabetizing example(s) -> Alphabetizing example(s)

Improper indentation issues aren't broken formatting, they display correctly but violate the manual of style.

Okay so this is how you all would want it to work? Is there anything else im missing or should be added / changed?

There will certainly be more edit reasons suggested, but I like the idea of potholing to policies.

Formatting would probably pothole to Text-Formatting Rules

Well we don't want to add a ton of edit reasons. Just the most commonly used by the majority of editors. WingedCatGirl suggested we add a custom canned edit reasons system users can change so we will leave more specific ones for whenever i have time to implement that.

Edited by kory on Feb 21st 2024 at 3:00:41 AM

Yeah, a custom option would be excellent for any other issue people want to use repeatedly.

That looks good. I agree on potholing "Fixed Formatting" to Text-Formatting Rules.

Edited by JoeG on Feb 21st 2024 at 7:49:58 AM

Seconding

One thing I just noticed. All the other reasons are in present tense. So it should probably be "Fixing Formatting" instead of "Fixed Formatting".

I like the idea of custom edit reasons. I'm doing a lot of wick migration for Media Notes/ and Platform/ so this would be nice.

Thanks, changed to "Fixing formatting".

Also added "fixing a sinkhole" and "deleted without reason" as well as turned the edit reasons box into a smaller scrollable field so it doesnt take up so much room as its now grown to 4 rows.

If there's no more suggestions then ill send these changes up for review.

Edited by kory on Feb 23rd 2024 at 12:19:04 PM

Should "Unilateral edits" and "Rogue/steath launched trope" be viable as a pre-set edit reason?

What's the use of the latter one?