Message: 9 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:49:17 +0100 From: Kurt Jansson jansson@gmx.net Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] IBM analyzing Wikipedia page histories To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: 3F4FAE3D.2050103@gmx.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed

Fernanda Viegas wrote:

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3. Another poster asked about our diff method: I think the main

difference between ours and yours is that ours is operating at a finer granularity (roughly at the sentence level, rather than the paragraph level). We'd be happy to talk in more detail, if you want!

I'd love to see MediaWiki use a smarter diff function, but I have no programing skills (well, TurboPascal, but that's long ago ...). Maybe one of our not-so-busy developers (are there any?) could talk with you about this.

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4. We have been finding some fascinating patterns about the different

ways in which people collaborate in Wikipedia. We are currently writing a paper about this and would be happy to share it with the community after we are done.

Great!

Kurt

Can you tell me what "diff" means?