Hi,
As you may know, the team Technical Wishes of Wikimedia Deutschland has
worked on improving the wikitext diff view for over a year in order to fix
a technical limitation: Whenever a paragraph was moved to another position
on the page, it was displayed as a removed and added paragraph and users
had to manually check if the text in the paragraph was altered or not.
With the improvements in the diff code, the algorithm now recognizes
paragraphs as moved, displays moved paragraphs as such and highlights
changes within them. The desktop version of this was already deployed to
most wikis end of May. Since today it’s available on all wikis. More
details and before/after screenshots can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Show_text_changes_whe…
As of today, moved paragraphs are also shown correctly on mobile. The
Wikimedia Foundation’s Readers Web team developed styles for the mobile
diff view, based on the recent improvements in the wikidiff code.
A big thanks to everyone involved, especially to the Readers Web team for
bringing the feature to mobile devices!
Michi
for the Technical Wishes team
PS: Diffs are cached for up to 7 days, so it might take a few days until
diffs of previous changes are generated with the new version.
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