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This can make watching pages for changes easier. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Using_the_Preferences_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Using_the_Preferences_page"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Using_the_Preferences_page"></span>Using the Preferences page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Using_the_Preferences_page"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Using the Preferences page"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Using_the_Preferences_page","replies":[]}}--></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Help:Watching_pages#Options" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Watching pages">Help:Watching pages § Options</a></div> <p>Watchlist customization begins with the options provided by the <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist" title="Special:Preferences"><i>Watchlist</i></a> tab on the <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> page. These include "Expand watchlist to...," which you can select in order to see all changes to a page rather than only the last one (which may have been an automated bot edit, or marked as minor, i.e., something less significant than, for example, the edit just before it – or, depending on other preference settings, may usually be hidden). Another option is "Group changes by page..." on the "Recent changes" tab, which, for example, enables changes to the same page on the same day to be grouped together (useful if you have a large number of frequently changing pages on your watchlist). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TWINKLE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TWINKLE">Twinkle</a> has the option to automatically add articles it's used on to your watchlist. To change this setting, go to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences" title="Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences">Wikipedia:Twinkle/Preferences</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Styling_of_recently_updated_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span>Styling of recently updated pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Styling of recently updated pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages","replies":["h-Enable_manually-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages","h-Alternative_styling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages","h-Disabling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"]}}--></div> <p>Although it is currently disabled by default, a formatting feature has been made available that highlights changes in your watchlist that you haven't seen yet.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To activate this feature with its default bold styling, enable the following item in your Preferences: </p> <ul><li><span class="example" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a> → <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets" title="Special:Preferences">Gadgets</a> → Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold.</span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Enable_manually" data-mw-thread-id="h-Enable_manually-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Enable_manually-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span>Enable manually<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Enable_manually-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Enable manually"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If you want to enable this feature manually using code, instead of using the gadget described above, add this in <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a>: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">updatedmarker</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">background-color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">transparent</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mh">#006400</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-changeslist-line-watched</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-title</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-weight</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">bold</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">mw-watchlist-resetbutton</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">block</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alternative_styling" data-mw-thread-id="h-Alternative_styling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Alternative_styling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span>Alternative styling<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Alternative_styling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Alternative styling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Watchlistcolors-alternative.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Watchlistcolors-alternative.png/350px-Watchlistcolors-alternative.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Watchlistcolors-alternative.png 1.5x" data-file-width="387" data-file-height="116"/></a><figcaption>Alternative styling with <i>border-bottom:1px dotted #999;</i> </figcaption></figure> <p>To activate the feature with an alternate style, you can instead add one of the following to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Use dotted underline</dt> <dd>black</dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-changeslist-line-watched</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-title</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-weight</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">normal</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">border-bottom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="kt">px</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">dotted</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mh">#000</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">mw-watchlist-resetbutton</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">block</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <dl><dd>or grey</dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-changeslist-line-watched</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-title</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-weight</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">normal</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">border-bottom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="kt">px</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">dotted</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mh">#999</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">mw-watchlist-resetbutton</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">block</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p><br/> </p> <dl><dt>Use italic text</dt></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-changeslist-line-watched</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-title</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-weight</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">normal</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-style</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">italic</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">mw-watchlist-resetbutton</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">block</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p><br/> </p> <dl><dt>Annotation with small green stars</dt></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">updatedmarker</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">background-color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">transparent</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mh">#006400</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-changeslist-line-watched</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-title</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-weight</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">normal</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">background</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">url</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sx">//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Pentagram_dis.svg/13px-Pentagram_dis.svg.png</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">no-repeat</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">left</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="c">/* @noflip */</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">padding-left</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">16</span><span class="kt">px</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">mw-watchlist-resetbutton</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">block</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p><br/> </p> <dl><dt>Annotation of unwatched edits with green background (like on Wikimedia Commons)</dt></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">updatedmarker</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">background-color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">Lime</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mh">#006400</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disabling" data-mw-thread-id="h-Disabling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Disabling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span>Disabling<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Disabling-Styling_of_recently_updated_pages"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Disabling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If the feature is ever enabled site-wide, by default, you may use one of the following methods, which will disable the formatting, the related <kbd class="nowrap button" title="This is not a clickable button; it illustrates the button one should find." style="padding:.2em .6em; border:1px solid; border-color:var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-interactive, #72777d) var(--border-color-base, #a2a9b1); border-radius:3px; background-color: #F2F2F2; color: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, var(--background-color-interactive-subtle, #f8f9fa), var(--background-color-interactive, #eaecf0)); font-family:sans-serif;">Mark all pages as visited</kbd> button, and the green update notices on History pages. Only <b>one</b> of the four methods described below is necessary. They all basically do the same thing. </p> <ul><li><b>Import CSS styling via Javascript:</b> Add this code to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js" title="Special:MyPage/common.js">your common.js page</a>:</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">importStylesheet</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'User:Equazcion/RemoveRecentUpdateMarkers.css'</span><span class="p">);</span> </pre></div> <ul><li><b>Import CSS styling via CSS:</b> Add this code to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a>:</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">@</span><span class="k">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">url</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s1">'//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Equazcion/RemoveRecentUpdateMarkers.css?action=raw&ctype=text/css'</span><span class="o">)</span><span class="p">;</span> </pre></div> <ul><li><b>Use Javascript:</b> Add this code to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js" title="Special:MyPage/common.js">your common.js page</a>:</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">importScript</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'User:Equazcion/RemoveMarkAll.js'</span><span class="p">);</span> </pre></div> <ul><li><b>Manually insert CSS code:</b> Add this code to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a>:</li></ul> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-changeslist-line-watched</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-title</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-weight</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">normal</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">#</span><span class="nn">mw-watchlist-resetbutton</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">updatedmarker</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Highlight_specific_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Highlight_specific_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Highlight_specific_pages"></span>Highlight specific pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Highlight_specific_pages"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Highlight specific pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Highlight_specific_pages","replies":[]}}--></div> <p>As an alternative or in addition to using the watchlist feature, you can also define a <a href="/wiki/Help:User_style" title="Help:User style">user style</a> for links to selected pages. In <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a> put a list of lines like: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="nt">title</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"pagename"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">color</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">white</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">background</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">red</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">font-size</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">150</span><span class="kt">%</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p>This may not work in all browsers, however. </p><p>On the (Enhanced) Recent Changes page it works like the bolding feature mentioned above, but it is more versatile, e.g. allowing extra emphasis on pages one is <i>very</i> interested in, or different styles for different categories of interesting pages. Furthermore, it also works on user contributions pages, and on regular pages (also for piped links, but not for indirect links through a redirect). It also applies, less usefully, for the section editing links in the page itself. </p><p>To highlight links to the given page also from other websites, including interlanguage links, use instead of the above: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="nt">href</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"full URL"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="err">...</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p>Note that the full URL is needed, even to highlight links from the same project, even though the <a href="/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext" title="Help:HTML in wikitext">HTML</a> code uses the relative URL /wiki/<i>pagename</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Removing_or_modifying_log_entries" data-mw-thread-id="h-Removing_or_modifying_log_entries"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Removing_or_modifying_log_entries"></span>Removing or modifying log entries<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Removing_or_modifying_log_entries"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Removing or modifying log entries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Removing_or_modifying_log_entries","replies":[]}}--></div> <p>Add to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a> the lines you want to <i>remove</i> from the <a href="/wiki/Help:Log" title="Help:Log">log entries</a>; for modifying the appearance the <i>display:none;</i> has to be replaced with a relevant CSS code (like from the "modified notification"-section above): </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="c">/* For all */</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">table</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="nt">class</span><span class="o">*=</span><span class="s2">"mw-changeslist-log"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="c">/* For deletion entries */</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">table</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="nt">class</span><span class="o">*=</span><span class="s2">"mw-changeslist-log-del"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="c">/* For the user creation log */</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">table</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="nt">class</span><span class="o">*=</span><span class="s2">"mw-changeslist-log-newuser"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> <span class="c">/* For the move log */</span> <span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">table</span><span class="o">[</span><span class="nt">class</span><span class="o">*=</span><span class="s2">"mw-changeslist-log-move"</span><span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link" data-mw-thread-id="h-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"><span id="Remove_or_modify_the_.5Brollback.5D_link"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span><span class="anchor" id="rollback"></span>Remove or modify the [rollback] link<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Remove or modify the [rollback] link"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link","replies":["h-CSS_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link","h-User_scripts-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link","h-JavaScript_(jquery)_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"]}}--></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="CSS_method" data-mw-thread-id="h-CSS_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-CSS_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span>CSS method<span data-mw-comment-end="h-CSS_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: CSS method"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Add to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a> the following line to remove the <code>[rollback]</code> link shown after every line: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-special-Watchlist</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-rollback-link</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <p>Or to remove <i>all</i> rollback links, including from history pages: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-css mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nc">mw-rollback-link</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="k">display</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="kc">none</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_scripts" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_scripts-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_scripts-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span>User scripts<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_scripts-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: User scripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following user scripts allow for more flexibility than the CSS method: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Mr._Stradivarius/gadgets/ConfirmRollback" title="User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/ConfirmRollback">User:Mr. Stradivarius/gadgets/ConfirmRollback</a> - highly configurable rollback confirmation/hiding script; adjust rollback link behaviour by page and device type</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback" title="User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback">User:MusikAnimal/confirmationRollback</a> - scripts to add rollback confirmation dialogs, available in mobile and desktop versions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Zvn/confirmwatchlistrollback.js" title="User:Zvn/confirmwatchlistrollback.js">User:Zvn/confirmwatchlistrollback.js</a> - simple rollback confirmation script</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="JavaScript_(jquery)_method" data-mw-thread-id="h-JavaScript_(jquery)_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"><span id="JavaScript_.28jquery.29_method"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-JavaScript_(jquery)_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span>JavaScript (jquery) method<span data-mw-comment-end="h-JavaScript_(jquery)_method-Remove_or_modify_the_[rollback]_link"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: JavaScript (jquery) method"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>You can also use custom JavaScript to alter the links. For example, to completely remove them from your page, add the following to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js" title="Special:MyPage/common.js">your common.js page</a>: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'span.mw-rollback-link'</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="nx">remove</span><span class="p">();</span> </pre></div> <p>If you want to make sure it only removes the links from certain pages, you can wrap it in a conditional statement: Start the conditional check with <code>if (</code> and end it with <code>){</code><br/> Then select the pages you want it removed from out of the list below separating each with a conditional or <code> || </code> </p> <ul><li>mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Watchlist'</li> <li>mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Recentchanges'</li> <li>mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Contributions'</li></ul> <p>Next, the above <code>$('span.mw-rollback-link').remove();</code> goes in and <b>make SURE</b> that you close the conditional statement with <code>}</code> at the end!!! </p> <dl><dd>An example that would remove it from Watchlist and Recentchanges but leave it on Contributions would look like:</dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="k">if</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">config</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">===</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Watchlist'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">||</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">config</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">===</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Recentchanges'</span><span class="p">){</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'span.mw-rollback-link'</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="nx">remove</span><span class="p">();</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Remove_"_|_block"_links" data-mw-thread-id="h-Remove_"_|_block"_links"><span id="Remove_.22_.7C_block.22_links"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Remove_"_|_block"_links"></span>Remove " | block" links<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Remove_"_|_block"_links"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Remove " | block" links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Remove_\"_|_block\"_links","replies":[]}}--></div> <p>Administrators can completely remove block links from their page by adding the following to <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js" title="Special:MyPage/common.js">your common.js page</a>: </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'span.mw-usertoollinks'</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="nx">each</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kd">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">var</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">this</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">children</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'a:last'</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="nx">replaceWith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"-"</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">().</span><span class="nx">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">" | -"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">""</span><span class="p">));</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="p">});</span> </pre></div> <p>If you want to make sure it only removes the links from certain pages, you can wrap it in a conditional statement:<br/> Start the conditional check with <code>if (</code> and end it with <code>){</code><br/> Then select the pages you want it removed from out of the list below separating each with a conditional or <code> || </code> </p> <ul><li>mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Watchlist'</li> <li>mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Recentchanges'</li> <li>mw.config.get( 'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName' ) === 'Contributions'</li></ul> <p><small>If using more than one of these, you can shorthand it as in the example below</small><br/> Next, the above code goes in and <b>make SURE</b> that you close the conditional statement with <code>}</code> at the end!!! </p> <dl><dd>An example that would remove it from all three pages could look like:</dd></dl> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="kd">var</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">wgCSPN</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">mw</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">config</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'wgCanonicalSpecialPageName'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="k">if</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">wgCSPN</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">===</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Watchlist'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">||</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">wgCSPN</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">===</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Recentchanges'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">||</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">wgCSPN</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">===</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'Contributions'</span><span class="p">){</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'span.mw-usertoollinks'</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="nx">each</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kd">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="kd">var</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="k">this</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">children</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'a:last'</span><span class="p">).</span><span class="nx">replaceWith</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"-"</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">$elem</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">html</span><span class="p">().</span><span class="nx">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">" | -"</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">""</span><span class="p">));</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="p">});</span> <span class="p">}</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Hide_pages_in_your_watchlist" data-mw-thread-id="h-Hide_pages_in_your_watchlist"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Hide_pages_in_your_watchlist"></span>Hide pages in your watchlist<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Hide_pages_in_your_watchlist"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Hide pages in your watchlist"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Hide_pages_in_your_watchlist","replies":[]}}--></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hide_Pages_in_Watchlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist">Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist</a></div> <p>It is possible to hide pages in your watchlist using <a href="/wiki/CSS" title="CSS">CSS</a>, via <a href="/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.css" title="Special:MyPage/common.css">your common.css page</a>. This makes it possible, for example, to watch a page without the associated talk page appearing in your watchlist. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hide_Pages_in_Watchlist" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist">Wikipedia:Hide Pages in Watchlist</a> for instructions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Scripts" data-mw-thread-id="h-Scripts"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Scripts"></span>Scripts<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Scripts"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Scripts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Scripts","replies":[]}}--></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_scripts/List#Watchlist" title="Wikipedia:User scripts/List">Watchlist User Scripts</a></div> <p>There are many user scripts written in JavaScript available for greater customization of Watchlists, for example: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:UncleDouggie/smart_watchlist.js" title="User:UncleDouggie/smart watchlist.js">Smart Watchlist</a> - A script that offers several watchlist customization options.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/User:Js/watchlist" title="User:Js/watchlist">User:Js/watchlist</a> - adding unwatching links to the watchlist; different sorting, expand/collapse all hidden edit (if using "Enhanced Recent Changes")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes"></span>Notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Customizing_watchlists&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><!--__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"headingLevel":2,"name":"h-","type":"heading","level":0,"id":"h-Notes","replies":[]}}--></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">per <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33123" class="extiw" title="bugzilla:33123">Bugzilla:33123</a> implementing <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgShowUpdatedMarker" class="extiw" title="mw:Manual:$wgShowUpdatedMarker">$wgShowUpdatedMarker</a>; This was a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_83#Enable_.22Show_changes_since_last_visit.22_on_watchlist" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 83">December 2011 community request</a>. 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