Ed -- Nice. To be clear, I would still appreciate a multi-column look, because for me that is a much clearer visualization of the site's activity than looking at any single edit-size-range. It's like a sparkline: you can get both a sense of flow and a feel for the texture in the dimension of significance.
In fact, for the larger edits it might make sense to include 40 chars of text from the update on a second line.
Reverts could show up as a thin red line between two edits, extending to the side with the word "rv", with the article title available on mouseover.
SJ
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Ed Summers ehs@pobox.com wrote:
Hi SJ,
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Without changing the concept or algorithm much, I'd like to see a three column version, with the left-most column being for all edits -- with speed smoothed out over time (time delay 30 seconds, average it out); the middle one being edits changing over 100 chars that aren't immediately reverted (time-delayed 1 min?), and the left column being edits changing over 1,000 chars that aren't quickly reverted (time-delayed 2 minutes?), and aren't by bots or huggle.
I am trying out a slider that allows you to set an "edit size" limit, which should achieve roughly the same thing without the need for additional columns. I haven't done any checking for pages that are immediately reverted though (yet).
When I have time next I want to highlight the bots differently, maybe with a small robot icon (let me know if you know of one), and allow them to be filtered. Also I want to add language filtering since several people have asked for that. I'm not quite sure how to do the right-to-left for (ar,fa, ur, and he) since this basically right justifies things, and it's mixed in with other direction text. Ideas welcome on that front.
//Ed
PS. I'm having some issues keeping the service running. At the moment I'm not sure if its a bug in my code or something lower level in socket.io, express or node just yet...
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