Hi there,
The Technical Wishes Team of Wikimedia Germany is currently working on a soon-to-be deployed major improvement of the diff view engine. [1]
It is now available on test wiki [2] and Mediawiki [3] and it would be great if you could test it and tell us if you encounter any bugs. [4] The deployment to all other wikis will hopefully happen in the near future.
While working on this, we also found an old bug in the diff engine: Sometimes two paragraphs which are not related at all are considered a changed paragraph: example [5]. We have fixed this bug now and it was already deployed on all wikis by the end of October. [6] [7]
The bigger improvement of the diff view will be announced separately, once the date for its deployment is fixed – expect it in a few weeks.
Regards, Michael for the Technical Wishes Team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Show_text_changes_when... [2] http://test.wikipedia.org [3] http://mediawiki.org [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_Example_1_-_before2.png [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/356582/, [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781