2008/8/20 Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Diff.php?view=markup doesn't look like it is particularly straightforward to implement, and rather than doing so, couldn't it be made available via the API?
Has been a frequently requested feature, but is WONTFIX due to performance issues.
Really? Is it in Bugzilla?
A couple of interesting bugs I found: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10268 "Watchlist RSS feed should include diffs" (marked RESOLVED, LATER which seems a bit weird to me?)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3998 "support change-centric in addition to page-centric behavior mode for Recent Changes Atom feed"
- although this is not closed, I just had a look at en.wikipedia's RC feed, and it has coloured diffs in it, so maybe this bug can be closed.
Anyway I opened a new bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15254 "Page history feeds should have diff view, like RecentChanges feed".
After thinking about it it makes the most sense to me that the (index.php) feeds should provide a diff view, and the API should not -- for machine purposes the pretty HTML diff is probably not much use.
However, it may be nice if the diff algorithm implementation was available as a kind of standalone implementation. Does anyone know much about it?
thanks, Brianna