On 1/17/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Shouldn't be hard, all the code for diffs already exists. It just a matter of parsing the wikicode in the diff, rather than printing it as source code, and obviously the parsing code already exists as well.
Agreed -- I don't know any PHP, but it seems to me that most of the technical support for that sort of feature is already in place. We can already make diffs and parse code, and we can already tell which edits were made when, so just compare against the most recent oldid that's over 24 hours old, I guess.
That might have some interesting impact on content disputes. Or what happens when the version being compared against was the vandal version. But it's at least possible.
I think the Stable Version feature that is being worked on is a better
solution, though. It's more flexible, but does pretty much the same job.
Even if we only applied stable versions to a select few articles (say, those that seem to get sprotected all the time, because vandals think they're funny, or anything that may have or frequently has BLP concerns), it would probably go a long way toward avoiding this sort of situation, and the resulting press.
Unless staying in the press is a good thing. And in some cases, it is.
So, I dunno. Our counter-vandalism efforts seem to work, for the most part, but BLP is always a hard patrol.
-Luna