Moderator Tools/Recent changes

The Moderator Tools team is currently working on making improvements to Special:RecentChanges and related edit review workflows. We anticipate this project lasting a few months, from approximately November 2024 to February 2025, in which we hope to improve the process of reviewing new changes to Wikimedia projects.

We have a brief survey at Moderator Tools/Survey:Recent Changes to gather input for this project - please answer the questions if you're interested!

Overview

As part of the WE1.3 Key Result (Increase user satisfaction of 4 moderation products by 5pp each), our team identified that there was an opportunity to make positive changes to the RecentChanges Special page, and related workflows around reviewing new edits. We don't have a fixed plan for what these improvements will entail - we intend to learn as we go and prioritise the highest impact opportunities that we identify. We'll post here when we have questions about work we're considering tackling.

Recent changes layout

One idea that we're interested in exploring is converting RecentChanges to use something more like a table layout instead of being a list. This proposal is already tracked in T30446, where various mockups and ideas have already been posted. We think this could improve the readability of the list, especially for newer users who are less familiar with how edit entries are laid out on these pages. We invite your input on the talk page.

We will be exploring this idea with some mockups, which will be posted here when they're ready for review.

Project updates

Updates on the project will be posted here.