On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:58 PM, The Editor wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've been wondering ever since why there are no helpful links on
>> action.undo.
>> 
>> 1) "Page edited by Markus." -> Markus could link to login.markus.
>> (This applies to all usernames that are output anywhere. It's the web
>> so I would link them.)
>> 
>> I see that the changesummary would have to be saved as [[login.markus|
>> Markus]].
> 
> The problem is, I suspect most sites don't have profile pages setup.
> They may exist, but unless there is a strong user community, those
> pages are blank. So a link won't mean much. But the action pages could
> be easily customized to convert {member} to [[~{member}]]. You just
> have to find them all.

Okay, I see this would lead to tons of ? links everywhere... Dismissed.

>> 2) "Version: Mon Mar 8 21:12:52 2010" -> Could link to the stamped
>> version of the page to allow looking at the whole page instead of its
>> changes only.
>> 
>> One more thought. The diff view is great but often I would prefer to
>> (optionally) display a list of all the previous whole pages one after
>> the other. In the sense of:
>> 
>> for every stamp: print "!! date of stamp" and [(include stamp)]
>> 
>> Often this would allow for easier identification of the version you
>> are looking for. Especially if there are hard to notice changes in the
>> markup which you would instantly see on the full page.
> 
> This is a good idea, but to my knowledge there is no core
> functionality to view a stamp page content. The diff function can read
> and generate a comparison, but we'd have to have a special plugin or
> add some new functionality somewhere to view the actual page. It could
> be done of course, but I haven't been convinced it needs to be in the
> core. A plugin seems more logical.

Isn't the page simply everything down to ~data~? Wouldn't it be as simple as to 
process the stamp until that line?

If this was true, then it would already be in the source (almost)...

> 
> Cheers,
> Dan
> 
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