Wikipedia talk:Recent changes patrol/Archives/2018/March

New option for reading difficult diffs
Quick note to say that folks who regularly deal with diffs may be particularly interested in the Beta Feature for visual diffs. Go to Special:Preferences and scroll about halfway down the list to find it.

Here's the main reason why you might be interested:



In the old diff mode, none of the text changes, such as the removal of the word not, are marked at all, because the paragraphs were re-arranged. Here, they're highlighted. The toggle box at the top lets you switch back and forth, so you can use both for the same diff. Some changes are easier to spot in one mode, and others in the other mode, so the system is set up to let you use both. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:43, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Cooperation with Cluebot NG
I've recently been RC patrolling as a change of pace from other projects, using Special:RecentChanges with a "Likely have problems" filter. It would save a significant amount of time if I could also filter out "changes that were followed by an edit by ClueBot NG" (i.e. already reverted), which would sometimes apply to about half of them. I realize that it may not be proper to specialize this feature with a specific username, but is there an equivalent way of filtering the list?

One could generalize it by filtering out any "changes immediately followed by a changed tagged as a revert", but it's possible for vandals to game that. David Brooks (talk) 14:10, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

I Agree, this would be a great change, but I have no idea how the filter system works. &#91;Username Needed&#93; 15:20, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * If one uses the "Hide Bot edits" setting, previous changes to the same page will also be hidden, as I understand it. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 18:16, 24 March 2018 (UTC)