On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Jakob Voss wrote:
Roman Nosov wrote:
I've been directed here by Brion, Robchurch and others on #wikimedia-tech. So I propose a new feature for Wikipedia which people on #wikimedia-tech mostly refer as blame page or blame map. I would prefer to call it something like "Track contributions mode" (because of similarity with MS Word track changes mode) or "Hall of fame" but whatever. I have live prototype written in PHP&MySQL at http://217.147.83.36:9000/ Example of "blame map" can be seen at http://217.147.83.36:9000/history::171 two blame maps compared http://217.147.83.36:9000/history::171=169
Wow! That's cool and useful. I only ask myself how it scales with large articles and dozen of editors. de:Benutzer:Jah / meta:user:Jah implemented a similar function for offline use a year ago,[1] but you script looks much more developed. With blame maps you can finally find out who is responsible for which statement and directly ask him to cite his sources :-) Can you add something to give a link to the normal diff/edit where a specific paragraph was changed for the last time?
I concur: that is *outtahand* cool. Is it possible to specify a cutoff, either in edits-back-from-now, or after-a-given-date, and leave older material uncolored? (Specifically, this might be really cool for patrolling... not necessarily on WP, mind you.)
Is this something that can be plugged into MediaWiki? Or was that just a mockup, and you're still early on?
Cheers, -- jra