Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Miscellaneous/Display default/recommended values at Special:Preferences

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Display default/recommended values at Special:Preferences

Problem: At Special:Preferences, it's impossible to know which settings you have changed away from the default (or have acquired a new default value since you signed up) without doing a full reset.
Who would benefit: All editors who like to customize their settings, and particularly longer-term editors who may not be aware that some settings have acquired new default values.
Proposed solution: Show some kind of default indicator, as mocked up by Quiddity.
More comments: This was discussed at en-WP at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Clearly display each Default setting at Special:Preferences and received clear support.
Phabricator tickets: task T70689
Proposer: {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 03:03, 17 November 2020 (UTC) (but really mostly Nick Moyes, who put forward the Village pump discussion, and Quiddity)[reply]

Discussion

Pinging commenters from the Village pump discussion: @Nick Moyes, Ed6767, Phil Bridger, Izno, Hazard-SJ, GenQuest, GhostInTheMachine, Xaosflux, and Sphilbrick: feel free to weigh in here. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 09:06, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Support for convenience. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 19:34, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support for convenience. Certes (talk) 21:08, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 23:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sabiusaugustus (talk) 00:49, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 02:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support It’s so annoying not to be able to determine what settings one has changed over the years. Nick Moyes (talk) 09:14, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 10:51, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — xaosflux ^Talk 12:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ‐‐1997kB (talk) 13:06, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Sphilbrick (talk) 13:34, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, gotta know these things, keeps one sane. GenQuest (talk) 15:10, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support and maybe add an explanation about why a certain setting is default (in a tooltip? I don't know). Петър Петров (talk) 17:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support for default option Browk2512 (talk) 22:47, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support dwf² (talk) 22:58, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 23:54, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 03:15, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support JPxG (talk) 05:55, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Em-mustapha ^{User | talk} 06:55, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 19:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Srđan (talk) 22:20, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Also important to highlight if the default was changed — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 23:26, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support KevinL (aka L235 · t) 01:05, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hazard-SJ (talk) 02:07, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support BoldLuis (talk) 15:34, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dodger67 (talk) 18:04, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Xnet1234 (talk) 22:25, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Meiræ 22:26, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support DGG (talk) 01:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 11:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Klaas `Z4␟` V: 15:57, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vincent Simar (talk) 22:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 08:44, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Utile. Nemo Le Poisson (talk) 10:22, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- the wub "?!" 18:31, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kimsey0 (talk) 22:35, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Amory (u • t • c) 13:22, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Thanks for the fish! ^{talk•contribs} 22:45, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support WTM (talk) 00:31, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, and show options that have changed by developers or been added since the last time that preferences page was changed by the user. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 07:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Teratix ₵ 06:13, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ita140188 (talk) 07:53, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pelagic (talk) 13:24, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support with links to explanation (per Петър Петров) and highlight of changes (per SMcCandlish) ◅ SebastianHelm (talk) 14:20, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jurbop (talk) 18:10, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Épico (talk)/(contribs) 23:31, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've had occasion to be flummoxed by a bug, where I didn't encounter it until _long_ after I'd modified the troubling setting. I had to reset everything first in order to find the bad setting. And of course then had little enough idea what the _other_ setting I'd changed were. Simple flags on modified settings would have made it much easier. Shenme (talk) 02:11, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Joalbertine (talk) 08:38, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 16:11, 19 December 2020 (UTC) Nothing really important, but nice to have[reply]
Support HLHJ (talk) 03:14, 20 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support per Sänger; stronger support if an overview of one's settings that have been changed from the default is included —2d37 (talk) 09:17, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support EEMIV (talk) 15:12, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support NicoScribe (talk) 16:51, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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