Matthew Brown wrote:
On 1/19/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Yep. It's a bit painful, but is generally
feasible. Nightmare on a
really heavily edited page, of course.
It Would Be Nice If Wikipedia had a good way to search for when a
given text string was added to an article, or deleted from it. Like
many IWBNIs, however, I can't see a great way to code it that would be
efficient.
That's basically what the IBM History Flow
<http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/> does, but
unfortunately the code isn't released. Of course, It Would Be Nice If
either they were persuaded to release the code, or someone reimplemented
a free version.
On a slight tangent, the nightmare of dealing with histories on
heavily-edited pages could be slightly eased if there were some way to
mark edits as vandalism, perhaps when reverting. Then, like we can
currently do "hide minor edits", we would be able to do "hide
vandalism"
and not get all that cruft in the edit history.
-Mark