Delirium wrote:
That's basically what the IBM History Flow http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/ does, but unfortunately the code isn't released. Of course, It Would Be Nice If either they were persuaded to release the code, or someone reimplemented a free version.
On a slight tangent, the nightmare of dealing with histories on heavily-edited pages could be slightly eased if there were some way to mark edits as vandalism, perhaps when reverting. Then, like we can currently do "hide minor edits", we would be able to do "hide vandalism" and not get all that cruft in the edit history.
-Mark
I like this idea. Maybe a similar feature would be easier to implement: hiding blocks of edits that were reverted. A frequent occurrence is a vandalism edit followed by a reversion. If those pairs could be hidden, it would clean up many edit history views. Only a bit more complicated would be multiple edits that get reverted as a block. It gets more involved when reverts of reverts take place...
-Rich