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. 

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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
>
>

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