On 5/10/05, David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
David A. Desrosiers (desrod(a)gnu-designs.com) [050511
06:07]:
> Which would give us an answer to "who
put this sentence in?" Which
> would be very helpful for collaborative editing, requesting
> references, etc.
"...identifying plagarism..." ;)
Well, yeah ;-) There's all sorts of things a per-line facility would help
editors with in regard to the process of collaborative editing.
I'm not sure "per-line" is the appropriate unit for Wikimedia work.
"Per-word" might be interesting, if we have intrepid MediaWiki
experimenters out there ;-)
I would guess that "per-sentence" or "per clause" is a good chunking
size.
IBM's HistoryFlow uses per-sentence diffs, and they work rather well
for tracking how much of a given user's edits remain unchanged 100
edits down the line.
SJ