Simetrical skrev:
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Rolf Lampa rolf.lampa@rilnet.com wrote:
The fact that the basic idea is already known, and used, in other context, doesn't mean that it's useless in another. In any case, this visual trick (or whatever one prefers to call it) will probably appeal to many people doing collaborative text editing.
Well, I wasn't entirely awake, I think (nor am I now!).
=.O
This is not really different, UI-wise, from TortoiseSVN's merge thing, as I said; but both are a great improvement over the merge capabilities of MediaWiki itself, of course. The only thing is, edits on wikis tend to be relatively short and immediate, and extensive merging is almost never needed. So trying to get a nifty merging thing (there's no need for AJAX here, when the full text is available on the client side) is probably a waste of effort from MediaWiki's perspective.
Perhaps you're right in the current WP context.
There's a potential though for MW used in other contexts, such as corporate wikis etc where you sometimes need to look very closely at your wording before publishing a text.
Possibly theres a potential in this way of merging text also for WP when doing Q-work on existing articles. Editors could select several old revisions, which in part held good contributions (but were reverted because of the "whole" being not so good) and then the better parts of a partly good (or bad) revision could be merged into a new quality revision. Could be powerful.
O.O ?
:)
// Rolf Lampa