Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view

2018-08-23 Thread Dennis During
This will make so many monitoring tasks much easier and lead to their being done better and more frequently. It is hard to conceive of any drawback to it. Even there turn out to be some bugs, this is a great improvement. Thanks. ___ Wikitech-l mailing

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view

2018-08-23 Thread Pine W
Thank you very much Michael. To give the non-editors an idea of the importance, the sizes of the headaches, and the amount of time that editors were spending on trying to understand complex diffs, I've seen multiple complex diffs used in questions for candidates for English Wikipedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view

2018-08-23 Thread Subramanya Sastry
This is good work and a nice feature. Thanks! Subbu. On 08/23/2018 08:14 AM, Michael Schönitzer wrote: 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

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar 2018-08-22

2018-08-23 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Approved: RFC: Modern Event Platform - Choose Schema Tech * On Last Call (ending 5 September 2pm PST(21:00 UTC, 23:00 CET). RFC: Block users by page, namespace, and/or action (Partial

Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view

2018-08-23 Thread Sam Oyeyele
This is indeed a needed improvement. Great work! Sam. From: Wikitech-l on behalf of Subramanya Sastry Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:08:01 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view This is good

[Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view

2018-08-23 Thread Michael Schönitzer
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