Hi Dario,

The features I'm currently working on are :
  • Adding Pause/Forward/Rewind buttons
  • Draggable timeline , you can select from where to start playing & where to end.
  • Skipping minor edits etc 
The tool currently scrolls the added / deleted / modified content into view , so even when the article gets long it will be possible to see the changes without having to scroll and find out whats happening , did it not scroll when you tried it out ?

I'm planning on making it a js gadget. I'm hoping the tool would be really useful on mobiles as they are more interactive than desktops.

Thanks
Jeph

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
scrap that, I see these are all feature requests that people already captured on the talk page :)

On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Jeph, 

this is really cool and a great way of showcasing how Wikipedia articles are made.

I can think of many possible ways of expanding this tool – for example, a time range selector with a plot of the frequency of edits over time, for example: I expect people will be interested in replaying parts of an article history when edit wars happen or watch collaboration around trending topics/breaking news, I'm not sure the first N revisions are always the most interesting ones. However these are the first priorities to me:

1) having basic metadata (time/contributor) about a specific revision in the header sounds really important – I don't have any sense of the temporal scale of these edits when I replay them. A tally of unique contributors displayed at each frame would also be helpful.

2) how do you expect to handle very large articles (where you cannot fit the entire body of the article in a browser window)? Having to scroll to see what's happening below or above the fold seems to defy the purpose of a high-level visualization of edit activity. 

3) are you going to host this on Labs?

Best
Dario

On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, jeph <jephpaul@gmail.com> wrote:




Hi,

Im an IEG grantee working on building a tool to visualise the edits in a wikipedia article. 
Would love to hear your feedback. You could add feature wishes here.

Thanks
Jeph

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
scrap that, I see these are all feature requests that people already captured on the talk page :)

On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Jeph, 

this is really cool and a great way of showcasing how Wikipedia articles are made.

I can think of many possible ways of expanding this tool – for example, a time range selector with a plot of the frequency of edits over time, for example: I expect people will be interested in replaying parts of an article history when edit wars happen or watch collaboration around trending topics/breaking news, I'm not sure the first N revisions are always the most interesting ones. However these are the first priorities to me:

1) having basic metadata (time/contributor) about a specific revision in the header sounds really important – I don't have any sense of the temporal scale of these edits when I replay them. A tally of unique contributors displayed at each frame would also be helpful.

2) how do you expect to handle very large articles (where you cannot fit the entire body of the article in a browser window)? Having to scroll to see what's happening below or above the fold seems to defy the purpose of a high-level visualization of edit activity. 

3) are you going to host this on Labs?

Best
Dario

On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, jeph <jephpaul@gmail.com> wrote:




Hi,

Im an IEG grantee working on building a tool to visualise the edits in a wikipedia article. 
Would love to hear your feedback. You could add feature wishes here.

Thanks
Jeph

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