Rob, what exactly is a 'full old version', how many does MediaWiki maintain, and how far back do they go?
Platonides, where is the "advanced watchlist" documented?
Frederik, that looks very close to what I am looking for, except that the inputs would be the current version vs. an older version (possibly selected by date) and the markup would be introduced into the normal MediaWiki page output (under control of the user). That would allow me to very quickly home in on any changes in the page. Thanks everyone! Norbert
Rob Church wrote:
- Full old versions; it's just as efficient when we concatenate them
together and compress using gzip
Platonides wrote:
There's an advanced watchlist feature which you might use. You get on the history page "updated since my last visit" next to those revisions (you must see the history page before the article page). You could then diff them.
Frederik Dohr wrote:
Not sure whether this is what you're after, but wikEd has an in-page
diff view:
On 30/07/07, Norbert Hoeller nhoeller@sinet.ca wrote:
Rob, what exactly is a 'full old version', how many does MediaWiki maintain, and how far back do they go?
MediaWiki stores the full text of each old version of a page, which, depending upon the configuration, can be stored as-is, compressed, concatenated together and compressed (most efficient). The text can further be stored on an external storage cluster, which is a concept we've not realised much past using clusters of cheaper application servers running databases to hold the bulk text, although this seems to be quite effective.
The software will keep old versions of a page forever. There are some maintenance scripts (e.g. maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php) which are supposed to prune old versions, but these haven't been updated in a little while, and might well violate current development best practices/recommendations.
Rob Church
Norbert Hoeller wrote:
Platonides, where is the "advanced watchlist" documented?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_change_notification
Not too documented, i regret.
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