Putting everything into some massive table is NOT an improvement.

Some progress on deployments and T391494: Improve discoverability of contribution options for experienced users in the new tabbed interface

I use this page daily in different languages and I am disappointed with the design change. The new look now rather degrades the UX compared to the old version. It's not a matter of habit, but of adding more time to open pages I use daily. Quick access has suffered for several reasons:

Remaining update-special-pages jobs have been migrated, following a successful manual test of the s6 shard earlier today. First scheduled run for all will happen at 5:00 UTC on the 22nd (i.e., soon).

Change #1146789 merged by Scott French:

[operations/puppet@production] P:mw:maint:update_special_pages: all updateSpecialPages shards to mw-cron

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1146789

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:Version lists {{#function}} as a Parsoid-only module, seems to work.

Change #1148391 merged by Hnowlan:

[operations/puppet@production] mw::maintenance: migrate lonelypages job to k8s

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148391

To summarize, this change makes things worse, not better. Please do not promote it.

@Novem_Linguae; Yes, I know it is trivial to add sorting to a tabular display. But note that I said "I would gladly give it up if it keeps other features from being implemented" Specifically, my idea of having hierarchical drill-down makes such simple sorting impossible. Since sorting adds such little value compared to the great value of a collapsible hierarchy, ditch the table. In the process, you make the list more compact, resolving one of @JAnD's concerns.

Change #1148391 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hnowlan; author: Hnowlan):

[operations/puppet@production] mw::maintenance: migrate lonelypages job to k8s

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148391

Change #1148384 merged by Hnowlan:

[operations/puppet@production] mw::maintenance: move uncategorizedtemplates and wantedtemplates to k8s

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148384

Change #1148384 had a related patch set uploaded (by Hnowlan; author: Hnowlan):

[operations/puppet@production] mw::maintenance: move uncategorizedtemplates and wantedtemplates to k8s

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1148384

Sorting by name doesn’t seem to me particularly useful, particularly with the search capability. I would gladly give it up if it keeps other features from being implemented

There are two search fields, which is confusing in vector. In monobook is it better, but search field should be in left.

Not sure if this is the right place to leave feedback; if it is, it isn’t obvious; the "Add Actions" drop-down seems particularly confusing. I expected to see an "Add Comment" option but found done. Anyway, if this is not the place for my comments, please move them to the right place.

Very nice. Any interest in adding a third column that displays the special page name in an unhidden way? So for example, Special:ListDuplicatedFiles instead of "List of files with duplicates". I think this would make the page more useful to developers.

In T219543#10833030, @Samoasambia wrote:

What determines the default order of the categories? It doesn't seem to be alphabetical nor the same order as in the old UI. I think it would be more intuitive and frictionless to use the old category order (or something very similar) as a default since it kinda reflects the relative importance of each category of special pages.

Change #1146788 merged by Scott French:

[operations/puppet@production] P:mw:maint:update_special_pages: updateSpecialPages in s6 to mw-cron

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1146788

Change #1146787 merged by Scott French:

[operations/puppet@production] P:mw:maint:update_special_pages: remove absented non-sharded job

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1146787

I agree that prompting for every link is massive overkill. But there should be a warning when clicking on a spam-blacklisted link, e.g. in an old revision.

What determines the default order of the categories? It doesn't seem to be alphabetical nor the same order as in the old UI. I think it would be more intuitive and frictionless to use the old category order (or something very similar) as a default since it kinda reflects the importance of each category of special pages.

Change #1147128 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[mediawiki/core@master] Improve BrokenRedirects display

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1147128

This is a regression from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/970344

Only seems to happen if MiserMode is set.

Change #1137546 abandoned by Zoranzoki21:

[mediawiki/core@master] Merge UnusedRedirects extension functionality into MediaWiki core

Reason:

Per comments in the task.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1137546

Thinking about this request, which I think should be declined...

Change #1146789 had a related patch set uploaded (by Scott French; author: Scott French):

[operations/puppet@production] P:mw:maint:update_special_pages: all updateSpecialPages shards to mw-cron

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1146789