Gate wiki pages in recently viewed items behind a feature flag

Naman Jagdish Galarequested to merge
exclude-wiki-pages-from-recently-viewed-items into master

What does this MR do and why?

Introduces the recently_viewed_wiki_pages feature flag (gitlab_com_derisk, default disabled) to control whether wiki pages are returned by Resolvers::Users::RecentlyViewedItemsResolver.

UI issue being addressed

In the Recently Viewed panel, wiki page entries render as ? instead of the wiki page title/text. Until the frontend correctly handles WikiPage::Meta entries, the backend hides them from the response.

Approach

  • Wraps the inclusion of ::Gitlab::Search::RecentWikiPages in available_types behind Feature.enabled?(:recently_viewed_wiki_pages, current_user).
  • Also gates the WikiPage::Meta branch in authorized_to_read_item? with the same flag for defense in depth.
  • Default state is disabled, so wiki pages are hidden from the UI out of the box.
  • Once the UI bug is fixed, the flag can be enabled via ChatOps without a code change or deploy.

Wiki page view tracking (via log_wiki_page_view in WikiActions) and the search autocomplete integration are intentionally untouched, so no history is lost.

Files changed

  • app/graphql/resolvers/users/recently_viewed_items_resolver.rb — flag-gated wiki inclusion.
  • config/feature_flags/gitlab_com_derisk/recently_viewed_wiki_pages.yml — new flag definition.
  • spec/graphql/resolvers/users/recently_viewed_items_resolver_spec.rb — added enabled/disabled contexts.

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Edited by Naman Jagdish Gala

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