If an article is pretty active, it can be quite a chore to locate the edit where a particular text was added. Is there any sort of tool to help with that?
Thanks. Zero.
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zero 0000 wrote:
If an article is pretty active, it can be quite a chore to locate the edit where a particular text was added. Is there any sort of tool to help with that?
The [[IBM History Flow tool]] does a good job in visualizing all the edits. It doesn't tell you directly who did a specific edit, but the text is colour coded and each contributor has their own colour, so with a bit of matching it's not too hard to find whodunit, unless of course you're colour blind.
In 2005 there was a competition for creating such a tool, and a number of them came up, but none are working anymore. The blog entry with some links is at http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/27/wikipedi.shtml Since the IBM tool is for a slightly different purpose, perhaps someone could try fixing these others?
-- para
User:AmiDaniel created a tool like that, but I'm unsure of how effective it is. I think it was called Whodunit.
Mgm
On 1/18/07, para wikipara@gmail.com wrote:
zero 0000 wrote:
If an article is pretty active, it can be quite a chore to locate the edit where a particular text was added. Is there any sort of tool to help with that?
The [[IBM History Flow tool]] does a good job in visualizing all the edits. It doesn't tell you directly who did a specific edit, but the text is colour coded and each contributor has their own colour, so with a bit of matching it's not too hard to find whodunit, unless of course you're colour blind.
In 2005 there was a competition for creating such a tool, and a number of them came up, but none are working anymore. The blog entry with some links is at http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/27/wikipedi.shtml Since the IBM tool is for a slightly different purpose, perhaps someone could try fixing these others?
-- para
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