On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
I think it would be very useful if I could highlight a sentence, paragraph or section of an article and get a reduced history view with only those edits that changed that part of the page. What sorts of indexes would be needed to facilitate such a search? Has anybody already implemented this as a separate tool?
The New York Times has made some progress in this area.[0] Of course, their articles don't get edited the way Wikipedia ones do...
I've tried using WikiBlame[1] a few times, but it operates at the level of strings, rather than sections/paragraphs/sentences, so, like you, I'm left to do most of my digging by hand. Glad to know I'm not alone in my pain. :-)
[0] http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/emphasis-update-and-source/ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Flominator/WikiBlame