[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia-l Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1307

[Bahnev]

> Message: 9
> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:49:17 +0100
> From: Kurt Jansson <jansson at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] IBM analyzing Wikipedia page histories
> To: wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org
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> Fernanda Viegas wrote:
>
> > 3. Another poster asked about our diff method: I think the main
> > difference between ours and yours is that ours is operating at a finer
> > granularity (roughly at the sentence level, rather than the paragraph
> > level). We'd be happy to talk in more detail, if you want!
>
> I'd love to see MediaWiki use a smarter diff function, but I have no
> programing skills (well, TurboPascal, but that's long ago ...). Maybe
> one of our not-so-busy developers (are there any?) could talk with you
> about this.
>
>
> > 4. We have been finding some fascinating patterns about the different
> > ways in which people collaborate in Wikipedia. We are currently writing
> > a paper about this and would be happy to share it with the community
> > after we are done.
>
> Great!
>
>
> Kurt
>
>

Can you tell me what "diff" means?