Ability to select a period and have diffs over that period highlighted on the articles themselves, not just in a side-by-side markup diff view
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	Jul 13 2011, 9:48 AM

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Author: mrj

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To allow users to more quickly stay abreast of changes to an article (particularly if it covers a developing topic), they should be able to view the article page in a form that highlights any changes since a particular date, rather than only being able to to view un-rendered side-by-side markup diffs.

There should be a time slider that allows a user to set the period of diffs that are highlighted, with the slider defaulting to either the time of the user's last visit to the article, or a reference point the user has set.

This feature would enhance Mediawiki's support for a "read-state", which is particularly invaluable for wiki-journalism.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:27 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-diffs.

• bzimport set Reference to bz29860.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Jul 13 2011, 9:48 AM

You may be interested on [[WikiTrust]], which is a little related. Take a look on the website of the project
http://www.wikitrust.net/

mrj wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

You may be interested on [[WikiTrust]], which is a little related. Take a look
on the website of the project
http://www.wikitrust.net/

Thanks for the tip about WikiTrust. If I have to write the present feature myself, being able to look at the WikiTrust Extension highlighting code will be invaluable:

https://github.com/collaborativetrust/WikiTrust

mrj wrote:

Planned to be implemented in an extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Diff_Highlighting_on_Article_Pages

This is a request for what we usually call a visual diff or visual differ, right?

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptNov 17 2015, 9:17 AM

There should be a time slider that allows a user to set the period of diffs that are highlighted, with the slider defaulting to either the time of the user's last visit to the article, or a reference point the user has set.

That would be Revision-Slider nowadays.

Aklapper added a project: MediaWiki-Page-history.Sep 20 2019, 7:44 PM

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:02 AM

In T31860#5407147, @Aklapper wrote:

There should be a time slider that allows a user to set the period of diffs that are highlighted, with the slider defaulting to either the time of the user's last visit to the article, or a reference point the user has set.

That would be Revision-Slider nowadays.

And I think the other

they should be able to view the article page in a form that highlights any changes since a particular date, rather than only being able to to view un-rendered side-by-side markup diffs.

is VisualEditor-VisualDiffs . And knowing since when you've last looked at a page can be done by watchlisting an article.

I'm closing this as resolved.

Izno removed Izno as the assignee of this task.Thu, Apr 4, 5:43 AM

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