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(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)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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