On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I was interested in this a while back too... turns out
Andy Baio sponsored a
contest to do just this back in 2005.
Yeah, I remember those. Animating page history is cool, but not quite
what the professors need for the review of students' contribs. I used
the word "sequence" ambiguously -- here's what I mean:
A page like this:
Username (required):
Pagename (optional):
Start date (optional):
End date (optional):
[ Show contributions ]
When the "Show contributions" button is pressed, we start loading
diffs and rendering them below each other, like so:
Page Foo
modified on timestamp
(Diff, either side-by-side or formatted/unified)
Page Bar
modified on timestamp
(Diff)
Page Baz
modified on timestamp
(spinner, still loading)..
...
This would allow the professors to review all edits that a student has
made more quickly than manually going through their contribs, and I'm
sure anyone patrolling a user's edits would find it useful.
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