Have a way to exclude Tags with 0 edits from selection
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	Trizek-WMF
	Dec 6 2017, 5:54 PM

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Reported by our usual kind IP. I quote:

Issue
It is a waste of time to attempt to filter tags with no (0) usages because they will never match anything.

Background
I just noticed a couple of new tags have been added, as suggested. This is generally a welcome improvement. However, some tags are unused, but they give the impression that they will actually have an effect when used. Currently Special:Tags lists a lot of these here. [see at the bottom]

Proposed solution

Remove them entirely from the list; or
Either gray them out; and / or
Make them unclickable; or
Warn users that their tags have no effects after they click on them

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines /-
	RCFilters: Don't show tags with 0 hits in tag menu	mediawiki/core	master	9 -9

Customize query in gerrit

Event Timeline

Trizek-WMF created this task.Dec 6 2017, 5:54 PM

Restricted Application added a project: Collaboration-Team-Triage. · View Herald TranscriptDec 6 2017, 5:54 PM

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It's a good idea but not easy to do. We'd wanted to sort the Tags menu by popularity, as they are on the Special:Tags page, but this was deemed not feasible. So unless @Catrope has an idea, we will have to let this idea wait.

• jmatazzoni moved this task from Untriaged to Freezer on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.Jan 2 2018, 7:17 PM

I'm working on updating a patch that will make tag usage counts efficiently accessible, but I need to do a bunch more work on it and it's getting lumped in with other cleanup work, so it'll take some time.

Restricted Application added a project: Growth-Team. · View Herald TranscriptNov 6 2018, 1:44 PM

@Catrope, I guess you're not working on it at the moment? I'm asking for triaging that task accordingly.

• jmatazzoni unsubscribed.Nov 6 2018, 8:53 PM

Change 491581 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope; owner: Catrope):
[mediawiki/core@master] RCFilters: Don't show tags with 0 hits in tag menu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/491581

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 19 2019, 8:54 PM

This turned out to be really easy now that the tag counts refactor is done (it ended up mostly being done by @Ladsgroup, not me), and I was working on code in the same area, so I just did it.

• Catrope moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Feb 19 2019, 8:57 PM

• Catrope removed a subscriber: Ladsgroup.

Change 491581 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] RCFilters: Don't show tags with 0 hits in tag menu

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/491581

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.33-notes (1.33.0-wmf.19; 2019-02-26).Feb 19 2019, 10:00 PM

• Catrope moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Feb 19 2019, 10:12 PM

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Trizek-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.Feb 20 2019, 2:18 PM

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Johan moved this task from Announce in next Tech/News to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Feb 20 2019, 2:40 PM

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Etonkovidova closed this task as Resolved.Feb 28 2019, 11:49 PM