[Mediawiki-l] how to have diff show entire section, not just differences

[Brion Vibber]

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Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
> How can I set the default history diff to show the entire section being
> edited left and right, not just the few lines surrounding displayed
> differences?

You'd have to hack up DifferenceEngine.php to identify section breaks
and add extra stuff to output, I guess.

Good luck!

> That way, readers can immediately make decisions based on what they are
> seeing and reading, rather than try to mentally take note of the
> differences (or not) out of total context, and then have to toggle back
> and forth between the article (or the "current version" below).

That's why surrounding context lines are included, IIRC. :)

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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