We've just added some new designs proposing an option for how we could display Tags (e.g. "Mobile edit", "Reverted") and Flags (e.g. Minor edit, Bot). We also added a design showing dropdown behaviour for longer edit summaries.
Thanks for highlighting this as something that was missing from our earlier designs @The wub - what do you think about this placement and behaviour?
Given that Minor and Mobile edits both have (M) as a shorthand, either a new naming is needed or Minor edit flag could be dropped. Minor edits are useful as a mechanism for filtering, but also rather useless as a feature in general since bad faith editors might abuse minor edits to evade scrutiny, so for patrollers they need to monitor all edits regardless.
On other hand, understanding an edit is mobile can help someone else understand the technical/useflow of the edit creator, and Reverts are useful too, as well as Bot edits. I think the truncating long edit messages and making it available in preview works well.
@Shushugah Where do you see (M) as a shorthand for Mobile edits? As I understand it mobile edits show up as a Tag, whereas minor edits are denoted by the M symbol. Is that wrong, or not true on all wikis?
I didn't see anything specifically incorrect, I just wasn't sure what M stood for when I see/saw it, and it's just ambiguous until it is not. Even the distinction between tag and flag is not something editors like myself really make a distinction of
