Simetrical hett schreven:
Well, I wasn't entirely awake, I think (nor am I now!). 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.
Well, most edits are short and clear, but there are massive rewrites of articles or pages too. Take http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Niederdeutsche_Sprache&diff=prev&oldid=40361365 as an example (just a quick example, I guess, there are much more complex examples around). It is really painstaking to look over such edits. In many cases I just revert or I just accept the edit, cause it is too laborious to dig through all the sentences and look whether the changes are appropiate, copying and pasting (changing back and forth from one browser tab with the edit box to another with the diff) and in the end you have to do three more edits to correct your copy&paste mistakes. It would be really cool, if you could do the merge by just clicking on the sentences. Would save much time in reviewing massive rewrites. But I guess, that is a feature that should be implemented in the WYSIWIG editor for Mediawiki yet to be written. (We need more paid programmers... Too sad, you can't _force_ voluntary contributors to do specific tasks ;-) )
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