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Very commonly applied tags, e.g. 'wikieditor' or 'discussiontools', are hidden on normal watchlist, page histories, and so on. They are shown on GlobalWatchlist (using their internal names). This makes the watchlist unnecessarily cluttered and sometimes causes entries to wrap over multiple rows when they don't need to.
These tags should not be shown, just like in normal watchlists.
Compare to:
Change #1235571 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalWatchlist@master] Add support for hiding hidden tags
Is it documented somewhere? Because 1) I found that hidden tags have the text "-", not empty, and 2) I saw cases people do not fill both fields just because they are identical, not to hide something.
Change #1240066 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bartosz Dziewoński; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/core@master] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Apparently not, even though the feature has existed for 10+ years (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/172098). I added a mention in the built-in API docs now, and I'll document hidden tags on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tags and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tags in a minute.
- I found that hidden tags have the text "-", not empty
Both kinds are considered hidden:
The API response omits messages that have been disabled in either of these ways.
- I saw cases people do not fill both fields just because they are identical, not to hide something.
I don't understand, can you clarify?
Yes. There are people that see that tag name column and Appearance on change lists column are the same and decide that one time is enough, no need to repeat. I do not say they are right, but this is happening sometimes.
Change #1240066 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Well, @matmarex, looks like it was merged before we finished to talk about this. A pity, but fine, we continue to talk, and maybe upload another change, if will be needed.
That was just the documentation change: adding "This property will be omitted for hidden tags." and some wording changes on https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btags (compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Btags).
The patch for GlobalWatchlist isn't merged yet.
Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier.
That won't be a problem. If the tag description message does not exist (the "edit" link is red in the "Appearance on change lists" column), the internal tag name is used instead (as in the "Tag name" column). The tag is only hidden if the description message has been created, and it is set to empty string or -.
For example, on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags, the missing file added tag does not have a description message:
But in the API response, the displayname field for this tag is still present:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=tags&tglimit=max&tgprop=displayname#:~:text=missing%20file%20added
…Unlike for an actually hidden tag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=tags&tglimit=max&tgprop=displayname#:~:text=discussiontools%2Dadded%2Dcomment
The tag is shown on Recent changes, Watchlist, etc., and will still be shown on GlobalWatchlist in the same way:
Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier.
That won't be a problem. If the tag description message does not exist (the "edit" link is red in the "Appearance on change lists" column), the internal tag name is used instead (as in the "Tag name" column). The tag is only hidden if the description message has been created, and it is set to empty string or -.
For example, on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags, the missing file added tag does not have a description message:
But in the API response, the displayname field for this tag is still present:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=tags&tglimit=max&tgprop=displayname#:~:text=missing%20file%20added…Unlike for an actually hidden tag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=tags&tglimit=max&tgprop=displayname#:~:text=discussiontools%2Dadded%2DcommentThe tag is shown on Recent changes, Watchlist, etc., and will still be shown on GlobalWatchlist in the same way:
I see. Thank you for the expanded explanation, I'm OK with this task now.
My bad, not paying attention the task has two changes, sorry.
Change #1256586 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_45] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Change #1256589 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_44] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Change #1256590 had a related patch set uploaded (by Reedy; author: Bartosz Dziewoński):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_43] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Change #1256590 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_43] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Change #1256589 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_44] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags
Change #1256586 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_45] Clarify documentation for action=query&list=tags