ImprovedRecentChanges:Wikka

This is an old revision of ImprovedRecentChanges made by DarTar on 2005-04-18 09:21:32.

How to improve RecentChanges

Some sparse suggestions.

Replace ⇒ with &lArr: IMO it makes more sense to have the arrow point FROM the author TO the PAGE, for instance:
(08:45 UTC) [history] - UserAdmin ⇐ DarTar [Updating links and changelog]

Add a link title to the page name, for instance: UserAdmin (roll-over with your mouse to display the title);

Give admins freedom to choose through an action parameter what links should be displayed: history, revisions, none, both;

Make the author's name clickable if the corresponding page exists.
Since this might clutter up the page with a lot of links, I suggest we add a simple username check to the link parser and a special CSS class for userpages. The parser will check if a given link corresponds to an existing user page; if it does, the link is rendered with a class="user" attribute. If it doesn't, raw text is displayed instead of a link. For instance:
(08:45 UTC) [history] - UserAdmin ⇐ DarTar [Updating links and changelog]
Such functionality makes sense also outside the scope of the RecentChanges action. It would be nice to mark links to internal user pages in a different, CSS-driven way. As a further extension, links corresponding to user pages could be given a specific tail (much as external links), for instance an icon or a some specific HTML code. See LinkTails for further discussions on this issue.

Your thoughts?