Some updates about the tool.
- Added support for 18 other languages (no Indic languages yet), most of them seem to work. - Added a play/pause button, so that the user can go grab a coffee in between :-) - Changes to the layout , now it looks more like a player with controls. -
You can try the demo herehttps://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html
Thanks Jeph
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM, jeph jephpaul@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, The current plan is to make it into a js gadget. The demo is a standalone tool and I'll move it to tools.wmflabs.org soon. I had chatted with the mobile developers about having something similar on the mobile web to view the changes , so my long term goal is to integrate it into the mobile extension , I think it would be better placed on mobiles than on desktops , but I'dont plan to do this right away.
Thanks
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 08/25/2013 06:45 AM, jeph wrote:
Hi , I'm an IEG grantee from India. My proposalhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits was to build a tool to visualise the edits in an article. It aims to make it easier for an editor to go through the
edits/revisions
in an article. Rather than showing the changes in wikitext the tool
shows
the page as a reader would see it. The content that was removed/
deleted in
a revision disappears & the new content/ modifications appears.
- Please checkout the live
demo<
https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html%3E
.
- An updated
mockup<
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1hJO1N6piYFMWUzVkpsR2dmUFU/edit?usp=sharing
of the tool
It is a work in progress and I'm working on the following features.
- Pause/Forward/Rewind buttons
- Draggable timeline , you can select from where to start playing &
where to end.
- Skipping minor edits etc
- Playback of a specific users edits alone. (I'm not sure how I'll do
this)
Would be awesome if you could add features you would like to see here<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Replay_Edits#Features_for_th...
. Moreover now that wikipedia has gone live with editing on mobiles I'm hoping the tool would be really useful there too as mobiles are
much
more interactive than desktops. I'm trying to talk to as many people as possible about the tool so that people will use it once I'm done
building
it & also to be sure that what I'm building is useful :-) Please share
the
demo link around.
Thanks Jeph
Hi, Jeph! Thank you for sharing this demo.
I also encourage any coders on this list to help out Jeph with the code, which is at https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikireplay .
Jeph, I can see a few directions this could go. You could perhaps try to get it integrated into MediaWiki itself, like the page information action (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tulsi_Gabbard&action=info ). Or you could make it a standalone tool on tools.wmflabs.org, like http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/articleinfo/ I think, and perhaps get it linked to in the "External tools" section of the page info action or the page edit history in our Wikipedias. Or you could try to join forces with another team or suite of tools like the RENDER toolset (example: https://toolserver.org/~RENDER/toolkit/ChangeDetector/ ) -- still external to MediaWiki, but benefiting from a team approach.
What do you think you will try to do?
Thanks!
Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation