I was interested in this a while back too... turns out Andy Baio sponsored a contest to do just this back in 2005.
http://waxy.org/2005/06/wikipedia_histo/
John Resig (author of jQuery) submitted this:
http://ejohn.org/projects/aniwiki/
Some months ago, I fiddled with AniWiki but didn't get it to work on current MediaWiki. Nevertheless this seems like a good place to start.
There's also this, but it needs Greasemonkey, and once again is probably broken on current MW.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1418
On 11/10/11 1:41 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
The WMF folks organizing education programs around the world (where students improve Wikipedia articles as an assignment) are looking for better tools for professors to review student contribs.
One of the needs that's come up is a more user-friendly, consolidated view of all changes made by a user -- either for a timeframe, or a given page.
That is:
- allow student/ page-level filtering of contribs
- render a sequence of diffs, as opposed to a sequence of page titles
- collapse a sequence of edits into a single diff
Brion suggested this could be done through a gadget/user script that utilizes the API. You'd fetch diffs one-by-one for each chunk via the API (can load them asynchronously onto the same page, allowing the reviewer to start on the latest or earliest edits and keep on going even while things load).
This shouldn't cause extra load versus loading the same diffs manually, but will be a lot nicer for the person reviewing it.
Any takers? This could make a big difference for getting hundreds more students to work on educational content -- it's a Good Thing. And it's probably useful in and of itself.
Erik