With the new ability for users to store their own filters and set them as the default ones, several of the settings provided at the preferences page no longer make sense. Some examples are the options to "hide minor edits", "hide categorization of pages" or "show wikidata edits", for which filters exist.
While removing the preferences seems a logical next step, we need to decide what happens to those users with custom adjustments. The custom adjustments can be either:
- Ignored. Provide these users the same default status as everyone else, and let them change the defaults if they want to. Given the simplicity of the previous settings, this approach assumes that it has not a big cost for the user to set their defaults and it can be a good opportunity to reconsider them given the new filters available.
- Migrated to the new system. An entry can be automatically created in the "saved filters" for those users affected that captures the filters they defined as their defaults in their settings.
Regardless of what we do to the preferences, we may want to inform the affected users (and only those). In order to do that, a popover dialog can inform of the replacement of the old settings with the new system: