Hi,
Putting together a bunch of ideas inspired from various places I've come up with a mock Up of the sliderhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slider_Mock.jpg .
- The mock Up shows a two level edit selector bar. The primary bar will show all the edits, the edits will be of equal width with their length varying as a measure of the size of the edit Eg If there are three thousand edits all of them will be shown with a width of 1px or so. - There is a slider whose width is adjustable which serves to select a subset of the edits. - The selected edits will be shown in a zoomed in view above the primary bar, here the edits will be bigger in width and easier to view, If the user selects the entire primary bar then the zoomed in version will look like the primary bar. - A handle bar in the zoomed in view, it can be used to select the starting point of the visualisation or to manually go through the changes edit by edit.
Ideas about grouping the edits etc would be awesome :-) Should we have a sparkline in the primary bar ?
Thanks Jeph
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:12 AM, jeph jephpaul@gmail.com wrote:
The highlighted text is part of a single edit and stays highlighted during its course , once it moves to the next edit it is no longer highlighted.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
J eph,
yes, a sparkline for the history of the article showing amount of change over the history of the article.
As far as color coding, yes i think it could be helpful, i think you'll need to work at making the colors useful but subtle.
what is determining how long the text remains highlighted in your demo, is it part of a single "edit" "session" "user" or something else?
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:22 PM, jeph jephpaul@gmail.com wrote:
A spark line on top of the timeline to give users an idea of what happened ? Would color coding the timeline be a good idea to convey edit activity ?
I was thinking of showing the changes when the user scrubs the timeline by making the content appear / disappear to reflect the addition and deletion of content, the way the demo shows it currently.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Jared Zimmerman < jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Jeph,
I like the timeline scrubber idea, it would be great if we could add in another layer of glancable information, instead of a straight timeline, if it was a spark line that went up and down from 0 (no change) to show the velocity of change (in bytes) over time, it could be very interested to show additions and subtractions to the article this way.
As far as where this control is located, toward the top of the screen feels more natural, perhaps it is tied to the "view history" tab that is currently at the top of pages. in the same way we have the wikitext editor and the visual editor, perhaps there is the current method of visualizing history and the "Visual history" viewer.
The other thing i would suggest you investigate is how additions, subtractions and changes are visualized on screen as the user is scrubbing the timeline.
*Jared Zimmerman * \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmermanhttps://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:50 PM, jeph jephpaul@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Making it a mediawiki extension is part of my plan but I wont be doing it anytime soon. Would you have any suggestions on the slider bar to select the start and end revision to animate the edits ?
Thanks Jeph
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Paul Selitskas < p.selitskas@gmail.com> wrote:
Concerning design of the tool and its UX, there is more sense in allowing the user to select a piece of content in the page (like in wiki blame), and showing how it did evolve through revisions and time.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:11 PM, jeph jephpaul@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > I'm building a tool to make it easier for an editor to go through the > edits/revisions in an article. The tool shows the changes in html rather > than in wikitext. The content that was removed/deleted in a revision > disappears & the new content/ modifications is made to appear. > > Please checkout the live demo. > My proposal https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits . > Some mock ups. Mock 1,Mock 2 > > The demo is bare bones & I'm working on adding the following features . > > Pause/Forward/Rewind buttons > Draggable timeline , to select the starting revision and the ending > revision. > > Hoping to hear some ideas or suggestions on the slider to select the start > and end revision , especially when the article has thousands of edits over > five or six years. > > Thanks > Jeph > > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > Design@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >
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