On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was interested in this a while back too... turns out Andy Baio sponsored a contest to do just this back in 2005.
Yeah, I remember those. Animating page history is cool, but not quite what the professors need for the review of students' contribs. I used the word "sequence" ambiguously -- here's what I mean:
A page like this:
Username (required): Pagename (optional): Start date (optional): End date (optional):
[ Show contributions ]
When the "Show contributions" button is pressed, we start loading diffs and rendering them below each other, like so:
Page Foo modified on timestamp
(Diff, either side-by-side or formatted/unified)
Page Bar modified on timestamp
(Diff)
Page Baz modified on timestamp
(spinner, still loading)..
...
This would allow the professors to review all edits that a student has made more quickly than manually going through their contribs, and I'm sure anyone patrolling a user's edits would find it useful.