Roman Nosov wrote:
Hi all,
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?
Thank you and greetings, Jakob
[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptautoren An example: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptautoren/Stern