User:This, that and the other/WT:PREFS dispositions

The initial dispositions on this page were proposed by This, that and the other (talk).

Preferences that change the display of the interface.

 * 💬 Hide the special character input beneath the edit field. Utilitarian visual change - preserve as gadget if there is demand, otherwise remove Removed 7 January 2024
 * 💬 Hide the display of site-wide notices at the top of the screen. Double-check if this works. If it does, it's a Utilitarian visual change - preserve as gadget if there is demand, otherwise remove Removed 7 January 2024
 * ❌ Put the [show] checkbox onto the left of the translation bars. Trivial visual change - remove Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Hide the copyright warning in the edit window. Agreement on BP to remove this. Removed

Preferences that change the display of entries. [May only work with the Monobook skin]
The preferences marked with 🤔 change the way Wiktionary entry content is displayed. There may be a case for preserving WT:PREFS in a reduced form if the preferences marked with 🤔 are widely used and relied upon - it would be preferable not to flood the gadgets list with all these possible options. However, if only one or two are in wide use, those could very well be converted to gadgets. I have seen no evidence that anyone is using the settings marked with 🤔 and have consequently removed them


 * 🤔 Hide the parentheses around list item qualifiers. Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Italicize the punctuation (parentheses and colon) around italic text. Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Hide the maximal amount of parentheses. [Can cause sentences to appear ungrammatical] Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Hide the boxes that link to Wikipedia. Trivial visual change - remove Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Show the translation sections expanded, instead of having them collapsed. Redundant to the "Show/hide translations" link in the sidebar - remove Removed 19 December 2023
 * ✅ Hide the translation sections entirely. [Instead of having them shown collapsed] Trivial visual change - remove
 * Not at all trivial for monolingual users of common English polysemic words, for which the collapsed translations can still take up much of the screen. -
 * ❌ Indent the “See also” lines more than usual. Trivial visual change - remove Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Show “form of” definitions with a plain (only wikilinked) lemma. (Default is with a bold lemma.) Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Show “form of” definitions with an italic lemma. (Default is with a bold lemma.) Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Show English glosses for mentioned terms in single quotes. (Default is in double quotes.) Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Hide parentheses around glosses. Removed 19 December 2023
 * 🤔 Show parenthesized plain (non-italic) transliterations. Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Change the bullets in unordered lists to be round. Trivial visual change - remove Removed 19 December 2023
 * ✅ Display headers inline. Why would anyone want to do this? - remove
 * To conserve vertical screen space, which we squander, making it harder to grasp the relationship (including redundancy) between sections, especially for large, complex English L2s. -
 * ❌ Move the was-WOTD template back to the absolute top-right position (vector). Trivial visual change - remove Removed 19 December 2023

Preferences relating to navigation and editing.

 * ✅ Disable the javascript redirect between pages that differ only in case. Suggestion to convert to gadget

Experiments – these are likely to be buggy and may not work in very common browsers.
Note, contrary to the heading, those that are totally broken have been removed. Those that remain are functional to at least a basic level.


 * ✅ Add links to previous and next pages. Convert to gadget (and give it a better name! This is a really cool feature, I even thought of coding it up myself at one stage)
 * ❌ Add the links in the navigation bar. A sub-setting of the "Add links to previous and next pages" feature. Not needed. Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Add the links under the language headings. A sub-setting of the "Add links to previous and next pages" feature. Not needed. Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Make the links left-to-right for all languages. A sub-setting of the "Add links to previous and next pages" feature. Not needed. Removed 19 December 2023
 * ❌ Edit sections without going to the edit screen. This is AjaxEdit aka "Ædit", which is already a gadget. Removed from WT:PREFS
 * ❌ Enable interwiki watchlists. I didn't test this. It probably doesn't work. Remove Removed 7 January 2024
 * ❌ Interwiki watchlists, other version. (Only works with enhanced recent changes.) I didn't test this. It probably doesn't work. Remove Removed 7 January 2024
 * ❌ Enable audio recording tool. I would convert it to a gadget if it worked - but reports on BP suggest it doesn't. Lingua Libre provides an updated way of recording pronunciations
 * Having something for producing sound recordings in the entry is much more wiki-like than the factory-like approach of Lingua Libre. DCDuring (talk) 13:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * True, however, the tool sadly does not work. I'm not personally willing to go further than maintaining like-for-like - I don't intend to spend time repairing broken scripts, but others might be. This, that and the other (talk) 21:53, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * This script is available at User:Yair rand/AddAudio.js for anyone who might be interested in fixing it. This, that and the other (talk)
 * ✅  Filter watchlist and recent changes to only show changes for certain languages.  I didn't test this. It probably doesn't work. Preserve as gadget if it works and there is demand, otherwise remove
 * This might be even more useful than the "enhancement" of the watchlist and recent changes. DCDuring (talk) 13:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
 * 💬 Add a button next to the search box to simplify inputting special characters. This works but is limited to Hebrew, Esperanto and Russian. Preserve as gadget if there is demand, otherwise remove Removed from WT:PREFS
 * ❌ Enable Experimental Translator's Extension. This works, but I'm not quite sure what it is supposed to do. Maybe remove. Removed from WT:PREFS

Sysop-only functions:

 * 💬 Replace text in deletion log comment I didn't check if this works. Preserve as gadget if there is demand, otherwise remove Removed 7 January 2024
 * ❌ Adds a CIDR Range Contributions check to Special:User contributions I didn't check if this works. I believe MediaWiki offers this as built-in now anyway