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Feedback must show up in watchlists
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  • As a reader or inexperienced user with something to say about a page, I want the editors following it to see my feedback in a timely manner (or ever).
  • As an editor enabling feedback on a page, I want to be sure that the output can be acted upon by the appropriate people, rather than just pile up in a central queue checked only by a handful general-purpose reviewers acting as bottlenecks ([[Special:ArticleFeedbackv5]]).
  • As an editor interested in using feedback to improve pages I follow, I want to easily and immediately see all feedback to them in a single place so that all my energies are fruitfully spent acting on it. In an ideal world, I can spot new feedback in my normal workflow /and/ I can see/moderate said feedback without exiting my workflow (e.g. I have integrated popups) or with quick walks out (e.g. snippets + deeplinks to all possible actions).

In other words, users *must* be able to see feedback for their watchlisted pages, otherwise feedback is completely useless, on any wiki with more than 1 active user (severity: critical in consequence). See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5&diff=584051948&oldid=584042174 for what people are forced to do nowadays:

I have made a list of links to feedback pages that I want to monitor on my user page. To check them I just open a whole group in new tabs and close the tab if there is no new feedback (about 95% of the time) click no action for most of the rest and occasionally get something worthwhile, which I usually deal with immediately. It is a work around for something that should reasonably be automated, but it works. • • • Peter (Southwood) (talk): 13:46, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

The previous solution for this, though not reflecting the "ideal" above, was an ad hoc special page disabled until T41326 is fixed; the IMHO easier solution, though also not ideal without some improvements, is to use Special:Log properly so that items show up in Special:Watchlist (T46377).

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 22 2014, 2:25 AM
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Setting priority to High: I don't think the WMF will fix this, but if a volunteer or third-party dev ever happened to work on AFTv5, this is the first thing they have to look at.

[need-volunteer is Wikidata-specific (plus doesn't every bug need a volunteer?; not convinced by high priority and critical severity at all either but I'll leave that to devs.]

[Lowering priority to reflect reality, as AFTv5 is not very actively being worked on anymore.]

Jdforrester-WMF subscribed.

All development work on AbuseFilter v.5 (and indeed, previous versions) is halted. The project is archived, so having open tasks is inappropriate. Consequently, I'm closing all tasks.

I still believe this is the one critical bug in the current non-design of AFT. Are the new maintainers interested?

If Special:Log is not feasible, an alternative is to use a central wiki page, as the Polish Wikipedia does (I already wrote about this elsewhere, let me know if you can't find).

ashley raised the priority of this task from Lowest to Low.
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ashley reopened subtask T46377: Use Special:Log properly as Open.