Move, delete, protect and watch now have icons in Vector 2022
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Description

Background

As part of work to incorporate the new bookmark button to the Reading List beta feature, we have updated the "Tools > Action" menu to support icons. This is important to allow editors who have the watch star in the actions menu to see the associated icon which is critical for understanding if an article is temporarily watched. The icons are also consistent with mobile so improve familiarity of icons across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu, which will predominately impact editors with privileged user rights.

Before:

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After:
Screenshot 2026-05-11 at 4.21.38 PM.png (473×1 px, 238 KB)

Mobile for reference:

Screenshot 2026-05-11 at 4.52.43 PM.png (1×2 px, 577 KB)

Opting out

Users can opt out of the change by adding the following CSS to Special:MyPage/vector-2022.css

/* */ #p-cactions li:not(.mw-watchlink) .vector-icon { display: none; }

If you have feedback on this change, we would love to hear from you on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Readers/Reader_Experience/WE3.3.4_Reading_lists

Event Timeline

I‘m wondering if this might be an opportunity to implement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Sibling_project_icons_in_side_bar as a default feature for Vector 2022?
There are already lots of large projects using interwiki project icons as a default for all editors and readers, e.g. frwiki, nlwiki or svwiki.

I‘m wondering if this might be an opportunity to implement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Sibling_project_icons_in_side_bar as a default feature for Vector 2022?
There are already lots of large projects using interwiki project icons as a default for all editors and readers, e.g. frwiki, nlwiki or svwiki.

It's feasible but that would need to be done but MediaWiki-extensions-Wikibase-Repo would need to make some adjustments their side requesting icons to be added to their code. If you create a ticket I can weigh in with the work they'd need to do.

@Jdlrobson-WMF responding to the user-notice request for announcing in the next tech news. See if this wording is accurate:

To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the “Tools > Action” menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.

To make any changes, please edit the entry directly on Tech News: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2026/21