On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Brianna Laugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/8/20 Bryan Tong Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Brianna Laugher >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Diff.php?view=markup> >>> doesn't look like it is particularly straightforward to implement, and >>> rather than doing so, couldn't it be made available via the API? >>> >> Has been a frequently requested feature, but is WONTFIX due to >> performance issues. > > Really? Is it in Bugzilla? > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13209
"This bug was fixed once and then reverted because of performance issues." > A couple of interesting bugs I found: > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10268> "Watchlist RSS > feed should include diffs" (marked RESOLVED, LATER which seems a bit > weird to me?) > > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3998> "support > change-centric in addition to page-centric behavior mode for Recent > Changes Atom feed" > > - although this is not closed, I just had a look at en.wikipedia's RC > feed, and it has coloured diffs in it, so maybe this bug can be > closed. > > Anyway I opened a new bug > <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15254> "Page history > feeds should have diff view, like RecentChanges feed". > > After thinking about it it makes the most sense to me that the > (index.php) feeds should provide a diff view, and the API should not > -- for machine purposes the pretty HTML diff is probably not much use. > > However, it may be nice if the diff algorithm implementation was > available as a kind of standalone implementation. Does anyone know > much about it? > <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/wikidiff2/> > thanks, > Brianna > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > Bryan _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
