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Make it more obvious how to track changes #57

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tmtmtmtm opened this issue Aug 18, 2017 · 5 comments
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Make it more obvious how to track changes #57

tmtmtmtm opened this issue Aug 18, 2017 · 5 comments

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@tmtmtmtm
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The normal Mediawiki practice to track changes over time is to add a page to your Watchlist.

However, the implementation here means that the main page (e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Oravrattas/prompts/Seat_Count) doesn't actually change when there are changes from the prompt being retriggered.

The page that actually changes is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Oravrattas/prompts/Seat_Count/comparison, but the interesting/important content there is wrapped in an <includeonly>, so the workflow of tracking is well hidden.

@lucychambers
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Needs to be there when refresh option is there.

@chrismytton
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Watching_pages#Related_changes_feature might be useful, but I haven't looked too closely.

@chrismytton
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A possible workaround would be to simply provide a direct link to watch the /comparison page from the prompt itself:

[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/comparison|action=watch}} Watch this prompt]

@chrismytton
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Have added a section to the FAQ: "How do I watch a prompt?"

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Template:Compare_Wikidata_with_CSV/doc#How_do_I_watch_a_prompt.3F

@lucychambers
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Problem: We don't have a way to show what the output of a prompt looked like in the past - which is a problem for us if we want to be showing what progress we have made.

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