[WikiEN-l] Featured article deterioration

[Steve Bennett]

On 4/12/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is especially prevalent when there is a small spate of vandalism.
> I try to make sure I always check the current version against
> something further down the page,  but it's hard to remember to do in
> all cases. Perhaps if it was easier (i.e., with a single click and
> without any looking at the history) to see the diff for the edits done
> by the most recent five users (sorting it by user rather than edit
> would make it easier to avoid skipping single bad edits)? Maybe if
> there was a regularized system of evaluating many edits at a time and
> screening them for problematic content? Maybe we need to find ways to
> get around seeing histories as collections of single edits and rather
> as clusters of edits? I don't exactly know. I'm just speculating
> wildly here and not proposing anything concrete.

This is possible with my greasemonkey script. I will really try to
release it properly. There's a screenshot here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image%3AEnhanceHistory-ShowerJuggling.png

Would that help?

Steve