The WMF folks organizing education programs around the world (where
students improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment) are looking for
better tools for professors to review student contribs.
One of the needs that's come up is a more user-friendly, consolidated
view of all changes made by a user -- either for a timeframe, or a
given page.
That is:
* allow student/ page-level filtering of contribs
* render a sequence of diffs, as opposed to a sequence of page titles
* collapse a sequence of edits into a single diff
Brion suggested this could be done through a gadget/user script that
utilizes the API. You'd fetch diffs one-by-one for each chunk via the
API (can load them asynchronously onto the same page, allowing the
reviewer to start on the latest or earliest edits and keep on going
even while things load).
This shouldn't cause extra load versus loading the same diffs
manually, but will be a lot nicer for the person reviewing it.
Any takers? This could make a big difference for getting hundreds more
students to work on educational content -- it's a Good Thing. And it's
probably useful in and of itself.
Erik
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Erik Möller
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