On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Michael Schönitzer < michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de> wrote:

It is now available on test wiki [2] and Mediawiki [3] and it would be great if you could test it and tell us if you encounter any bugs. [4] The deployment to all other wikis will hopefully happen in the near future.

o/ Michael,

Do you have a list of revisions that you're testing the diff view with on testwiki and mediawikiwiki? I'd like to give this list to the Readers Web QA'er, Anthony Borba, so he can take a quick pass at them using the Vector and Minerva skins to see if there are any bugs that we might be able to help out with.

Thanks to you and your team for your hard work,

-Sam

Hey,

just wanted to let you know that now also the second, bigger change has been deployed to german wikipedia! It will come to more wikis later. The new feature indicates if a paragraph has been moved and shows changes in it. You can find more information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ Show_text_changes_when_moving_text_chunks

Cheers, Michael for the Technical Wishes Team

2017-11-08 17:30 GMT+01:00 Michael Schönitzer < michael.schoenitzer@wikimedia.de>:

Hi there,

The Technical Wishes Team of Wikimedia Germany is currently working on a soon-to-be deployed major improvement of the diff view engine. [1]

It is now available on test wiki [2] and Mediawiki [3] and it would be great if you could test it and tell us if you encounter any bugs. [4] The deployment to all other wikis will hopefully happen in the near future.

While working on this, we also found an old bug in the diff engine: Sometimes two paragraphs which are not related at all are considered a changed paragraph: example [5]. We have fixed this bug now and it was already deployed on all wikis by the end of October. [6] [7]

The bigger improvement of the diff view will be announced separately, once the date for its deployment is fixed – expect it in a few weeks.

Regards, Michael for the Technical Wishes Team

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ Show_text_changes_when_moving_text_chunks [2] http://test.wikipedia.org [3] http://mediawiki.org [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImprovedDiff_-_ Example_1_-_before2.png [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/356582/, [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146781

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