masti wrote:
On 01/18/2011 12:30 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
On 01/17/2011 11:36 PM, masti wrote:
what is the reason and what it can bring to the community?
I tried to describe this. The task of finding out the history of a part of an article is very time consuming for long articles with a long history, where you have to manually look through lots of revisions that aren't related to the part of the article you are interested in.
I took as the example the part of the flat geography of the city of Paris. Was this part controversial? Who edited it? Has it changed? When and by whom?
Most edits to the article Paris are probably related to new elections, new buildings, new institutions. Most edits have nothing to do with the flat geography. So could the history view of maybe 5000 edits be quickly reduced down to 50 edits or even 5?
In this rare situation it could be beneficial, but does it really make sense in general? Workload and complication of interface, in my opinion, is not worth it.
masti
I think it makes sense, but more as an external tool which selected them for you. There are tools like http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php which aim to do these things, but although I don't think they are so good, they may be a good place to start.