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List of templates used should be presented in multi-column format
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Aug 3 2025, 4:14 PM
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The list of templates used on this page / in this preview / in this section (templatesused) gets very long on long articles. This can be mediated by presenting the list in a multi-column format

Requested at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)&oldid=1304034249#Presenting 'Templates used in this preview' in multi-column format with the rationale:

For longer articles, scrolling up through the long list of template shown during preview mode is getting to be a chore. Wouldn't it make sense to present this information multiple columns so less scrolling is needed? Thanks. Praemonitus (talk) 14:54, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

For example the current revision of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London lists 377 templates/modules in my 800-pixel high Firefox window (using Monobook skin) that's nearly 11 screenfulls. There is horizontal space in my 1280-pixel wide window for 2 columns without horizontal scrolling (even more if the protection type names were abbreviated)

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templatesused-multicolumn.png (726×1 px, 328 KB)

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Related Changes in Gerrit:
SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns"mediawiki/corewmf/1.45.0-wmf.17+0 -1
Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns"mediawiki/coremaster+0 -6
Edit: Use mixins for footer list columnsmediawiki/coremaster+6 -1
Edit: Split footer lists into columnsmediawiki/coremaster+1 -0
Customize query in gerrit

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Thryduulf created this task.Aug 3 2025, 4:14 PM
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Pppery added projects: MediaWiki-Page-editing, MediaWiki-Page-derived-data.Aug 3 2025, 4:22 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Aug 25 2025, 10:32 PM

Change #1181798 had a related patch set uploaded (by Aaron liu; author: Aaron liu):

[mediawiki/core@master] Edit: Split footer lists into columns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181798

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 25 2025, 10:32 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Aug 27 2025, 2:09 AM

Change #1181798 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Edit: Split footer lists into columns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181798

aliu changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Aug 27 2025, 2:19 AM
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matmarex added a project: User-notice.Aug 27 2025, 2:39 AM
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This should probably be noted in Tech News (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2025/36).

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.17; 2025-09-02).Aug 27 2025, 3:00 AM
UOzurumba subscribed.Aug 27 2025, 2:52 PM
In T401066#11122127, @matmarex wrote:

This should probably be noted in Tech News (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2025/36).

@matmarex, for Tech News - What wording would you suggest as the content? Thanks!

UOzurumba moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Aug 27 2025, 2:53 PM
aliu added a comment.Aug 27 2025, 4:55 PM

I've made a very basic draft at the next Tech News draft.

UOzurumba added a comment.Aug 27 2025, 5:30 PM
In T401066#11125358, @aliu wrote:

I've made a very basic draft at the next Tech News draft.

Thank you !

Izno subscribed.Aug 27 2025, 5:34 PM

This is awesome! I've had some personal CSS for this for a while in my common.css and had been just too lazy to file an upstream.

Krinkle awarded a token.Sep 1 2025, 11:06 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Sep 4 2025, 9:36 PM

Change #1184938 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sjoerddebruin; author: Sjoerddebruin):

[mediawiki/core@master] Edit: Use mixins for footer list columns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1184938

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 4 2025, 9:36 PM
Sjoerddebruin subscribed.Sep 4 2025, 9:39 PM

The above patch fixes unexpected behaviour, like the parser profiling data table being broken in columns. I also made use of the less mixins instead.

Before:

image.png (320×1 px, 88 KB)

After:

image.png (467×789 px, 93 KB)

Pppery subscribed.EditedSep 4 2025, 9:55 PM

This isn't good:

image.png (43×1 px, 16 KB)

Can each individual entry on a list be forced to stick to one column please?

Sjoerddebruin added a comment.Sep 4 2025, 10:11 PM
In T401066#11150347, @Pppery wrote:

This isn't good:

image.png (43×1 px, 16 KB)

Can each individual entry on a list be forced to stick to one column please?

The above proposed patch fixes this Firefox-specific behaviour.

Quiddity moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Sep 4 2025, 10:49 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 12:30 AM

Change #1184938 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Edit: Use mixins for footer list columns

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1184938

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 5 2025, 12:30 AM
matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Sep 5 2025, 12:43 AM
matmarex assigned this task to aliu.
ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.18; 2025-09-09); removed MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.17; 2025-09-02).Sep 5 2025, 1:00 AM
Nardog subscribed.Sep 5 2025, 1:46 PM
DLynch mentioned this in T403856: Searching while previewing an edit hangs Chrome tabs.Sep 5 2025, 7:14 PM
DLynch subscribed.

This seems to have caused T403856 which hangs the browser tab if you use search while previewing an edit.

gerritbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 7:22 PM

Change #1185186 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1185186

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 5 2025, 7:22 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 7:52 PM

Change #1185186 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1185186

gerritbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 7:53 PM

Change #1185192 had a related patch set uploaded (by DLynch; author: DLynch):

[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.45.0-wmf.17] Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1185192

matmarex reopened this task as Open.Sep 5 2025, 7:58 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 8:16 PM

Change #1185192 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@wmf/1.45.0-wmf.17] Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1185192

Stashbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 8:17 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-05T20:17:17Z] <kemayo@deploy1003> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1185192|Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns" (T401066 T403856)]]

Stashbot added a comment.Sep 5 2025, 8:23 PM

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-05T20:23:18Z] <kemayo@deploy1003> kemayo: Backport for [[gerrit:1185192|Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns" (T401066 T403856)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Sep 5 2025, 8:31 PM
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Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-09-05T20:32:48Z] <kemayo@deploy1003> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1185192|Revert "Edit: Split footer lists into columns" (T401066 T403856)]] (duration: 15m 31s)

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