zero 0000 wrote:
If an article is pretty active, it can be quite a
chore
to locate the edit where a particular text was added.
Is there any sort of tool to help with that?
The [[IBM History Flow tool]] does a good job in visualizing all the
edits. It doesn't tell you directly who did a specific edit, but the
text is colour coded and each contributor has their own colour, so with
a bit of matching it's not too hard to find whodunit, unless of course
you're colour blind.
In 2005 there was a competition for creating such a tool, and a number
of them came up, but none are working anymore. The blog entry with some
links is at
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/06/27/wikipedi.shtml
Since the IBM tool is for a slightly different purpose, perhaps someone
could try fixing these others?
-- para