On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Jakob Voss wrote:
Roman Nosov wrote:
I've been directed here by Brion, Robchurch
and others on #wikimedia-tech.
So I propose a new feature for Wikipedia which people on
#wikimedia-tech mostly refer as blame page or blame map. I would
prefer to call it something like "Track contributions mode" (because
of similarity with MS Word track changes mode) or "Hall of fame" but
whatever. I have live prototype written in PHP&MySQL at
http://217.147.83.36:9000/ Example of "blame map" can be seen at
http://217.147.83.36:9000/history::171 two blame maps compared
http://217.147.83.36:9000/history::171=169
Wow! That's cool and useful. I only ask myself how it scales with large
articles and dozen of editors. de:Benutzer:Jah / meta:user:Jah
implemented a similar function for offline use a year ago,[1] but you
script looks much more developed. With blame maps you can finally find
out who is responsible for which statement and directly ask him to cite
his sources :-) Can you add something to give a link to the normal
diff/edit where a specific paragraph was changed for the last time?
I concur: that is *outtahand* cool. Is it possible to specify a
cutoff, either in edits-back-from-now, or after-a-given-date, and leave
older material uncolored? (Specifically, this might be really cool for
patrolling... not necessarily on WP, mind you.)
Is this something that can be plugged into MediaWiki? Or was that just
a mockup, and you're still early on?
Cheers,
-- jra
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