Editing Eurovision Wiki:Village pump (technical) (section)

== Watchlist ==
{{tracked|T419918}}
Most times I open wikipedia I log in and go to my watchlist to see what changes have been made to the watched pages. I will then look at those changes. If there have been a lot of changes to a page I might look at a few and leave the rest til later. Until recently the watchlist would still show that page with a black dot to show there were changes I hadn't seen. Recently the list has shown a white (unfilled) dot and I haven't found a way to alter it. Is there anything I can do? Is this a universal change, or have I made a change to "preferences" or something inadvertantly? [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 09:27, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

:@[[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] Hi. I think I understand what you're describing, but I want to verify before I file a bug (or encourage you to file a bug, if you'd like). Please confirm this is an accurate description: In [[phab:F72822789]], I'm showing two screenshots, where I've clicked on "1", and where you would expect that ''only'' "2" is marked as "seen". is that right? Also, do you (or anyone) have a more specific sense of when this behaviour changed (this week, last week, or longer)? With those clues, it should be sufficient to file a useful bug-report. [I searched, and can't see any existing tasks that precisely match.] Cheers, [[User:Quiddity (WMF)|Quiddity (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Quiddity (WMF)|talk]]) 18:33, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
::I'm not sure if I understand you -If the list is the history of an article I have looked at 1628 1641 and 1649 and then done something else. What should happen when I go back to that history is the entries for 1653 and 1659 are shown as not looked at but recently they have been shown as looked at so its difficult to see where I have got to in the history. Does that make sense. It happened in the last week I think. [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 18:50, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:::I think I'm probably out of my depth here so I would rather you logged the bug. [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 18:52, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
::::In the mean time the watchlst shows the article is shown as looked at instead of not looked at. I first noticed this on [[Leicester Haymarket Theatre|Haymarket Theatre Leicester]] when a large number of edits were made on the same day and I had only looked at ten of them. The sytem showed I had looked at them all [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 20:23, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:{{replyto|Spinney Hill}} They shouldn't be a black dot, they should be green, per the message <blockquote>Pages that have been changed since you last visited them are shown in <b>bold</b> with a <span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold;">green</span> marker.</blockquote> Black dots are for the diffs that you've visited.
:I had the opposite - normally, diffs not looked at are bolded/green-dotted until I refresh the watchlist; today I found that some edits remained bold/green-dotted even though I had visited the diff. One page that this happened with was Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 22:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
::@[[User:Redrose64|Redrose64]] I believe that what we each see by default will vary, because there's a default gadget (but that is "''(unavailable with the improved Watchlist user interface)''") that adjusts those aspects.
::@[[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] & Redrose64: I've filed [[phab:T419918]] with what I think is the most broadly-applicable description. I don't recall how exactly it worked before today, but hopefully that task will provide enough clues to unearth whatever is causing the change. Hope that helps. [[User:Quiddity (WMF)|Quiddity (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Quiddity (WMF)|talk]]) 22:59, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:::Thanks for the above. I've never seen any green marker  --green text yes. [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 09:16, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
::::Was it one of [[Parkinson's law|Parkinson's Laws]] that "Improvement = deterioration)? [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 09:20, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
:::::Re: The bug: it has been identified and patched (thanks to matmarex), and will be fixed onwiki next week. (Details in the task on Phabricator)
:::::Informal addendum, re: Parkinson's Laws: I'm not sure, but you've reminded me of this [https://hacker-laws.com/ hacker-laws] compilation that I recently found interesting/amusing (and it primarily links here to Wikipedia, which is nice). [Caveat that it's also rife with oversimplifications, of course!]. Closely related to our [[List of eponymous laws]], but topically-focused and expanded. [[User:Quiddity (WMF)|Quiddity (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Quiddity (WMF)|talk]]) 18:47, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
::::::Hutber's Law is the closest according to the Wp list. Thanks to everybody [[User:Spinney Hill|Spinney Hill]] ([[User talk:Spinney Hill|talk]]) 11:25, 17 March 2026 (UTC)