[Wikipedia-l] Recent changes page

Brion VIBBER brion at pobox.com
Wed Jul 24 01:12:23 UTC 2002


Pierre Abbat wrote:
>>On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:48:12PM -0700, lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
>>>The tricky one is consolidating multiple edits to a page into one
>>>entry on the Recent Changes page, the way UseMod and Phase II did.
>>>This is a big performance hit.
> 
> I prefer not consolidating, as that lets me see if there's a vandal about, 
> even if most of the vandalisms have been overwritten. (I still put the IP 
> address of the vandal/newbie in the comment when fixing.) If you must 
> consolidate, at least don't consolidate major edits with minor ones.

I'd prefer to group edits together by page if we can figure out a way to 
do it efficiently, but I do like seeing all edits in the list.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)




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