[WikiEN-l] Download history tool?

[Jonathan]

That code is helpful.

One solution is to capture the click on the "compare" button. Once 
clicked, restore the pagehistory and submit the correctly selected radio 
buttons.

Wikitech-l and Meta are both good places:
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dzonatas/script/history

Jonathan

Steve Bennett wrote:

>Hi again,
>  Ok I had my own attempt at adding "group edits". It works, but has
>the obvious limitation that displaying the diff across a group of
>collapsed diffs shows not quite what you're expecting. In other words:
>
>Time t0  User A comment1
>Time t1  User A
>Time t2  User A comment2
>Time t3  User B comment 3
>
>It shows this as
>Time t0 User A comment1//---//comment2
>Time t3 User B
>
>So if you attempt to compare between t0 and t3, you of course get all
>the changes made in t1, t2 and t3, whereas you probably just wanted
>t3. Not sure how to deal with that one.
>
>Anyway, feel free to use this code if at all helpful.
>
>Also...I'm sure by now we're on the wrong list. What's the right one? wikitech?
>
>Steve
>
>// ==UserScript==
>
>// @name           Compress history
>
>// @namespace      stevage
>
>// @description    Collapses consecutive edits from the same person into one
>
>// @include        *.wikipedia.org/*action=history
>
>// ==/UserScript==
>
>var hist;
>hist = document.getElementById('pagehistory');
>
>if (hist) {
>  var diffs;
>  diffs = document.evaluate(
>    "LI",
>    hist,
>    null,
>    XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
>    null
>  );
>  var last='*x!', prevdiffcomment;
>
>  for (var i = 0; i < diffs.snapshotLength; i++) {
>
>    var diff = diffs.snapshotItem(i);
>    var comment = document.evaluate(
>      'SPAN[@class="comment"]',
>      diff,
>      null,
>      XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
>      null
>    ).snapshotItem(0);
>    //GM_log(comment.innerHTML);
>    var a = document.evaluate(
>      "SPAN/A",
>      diff,
>      null,
>      XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
>      null
>    );
>    eacha = a.snapshotItem(0);
>    if (eacha.title==last) {
>      if (comment) {
>        prevdiffcomment.innerHTML = prevdiffcomment.innerHTML + '//'
>+comment.innerHTML;
>      } else {
>        prevdiffcomment.innerHTML = prevdiffcomment.innerHTML + '//---';
>      }
>      diff.parentNode.removeChild(diff);
>    } else {
>      last = eacha.title;
>      if (!comment) {
>        comment = document.createElement('SPAN');
>        comment.className='comment';
>        comment.innerHTML=' ---';
>        diff.insertBefore(comment, null);
>      }
>      prevdiffcomment = comment;
>    }
>  }
>}
>
>
>On 3/11/06, Jonathan <dzonatas at dzonux.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>It has been updated to animate and export a basic Excel xml:
>>http://dzonux.net/wikipedia-animate-hack.user.js
>>
>>"Group edits" is not finished.
>>
>>Steve Bennett wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On 3/10/06, Jonathan <dzonatas at dzonux.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I started to fix the script:
>>>>http://dzonux.net/wikipedia-animate-hack.user.js
>>>>
>>>>It shows the basic layout, but it stops right before it animates.
>>>>
>>>>Steve, are there are any other features you would like?
>>>>
>>>>Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Ooh, interesting question :) I can now get that script to activate,
>>>but yeah, doesn't do much useful yet.
>>>
>>>Hard to ask for *more* features when I haven't seen what it does yet.
>>>But things that would be useful would be grouping all subsequent edits
>>>by a single editor (would be useful in general in Wikipedia), and,
>>>yeah like my original quest, somehow being able to download a list of
>>>all changes into Excel or something (with dates and URLs would be
>>>brilliant...)
>>>
>>>Steve
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