https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67576
Bug ID: 67576
Summary: Annotations are not preserved between edits
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Annotator
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
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Currently, any edits to a page will create a new page with no annotations,
which makes this extension very difficult to use. You must look at the page
history, and look at each revision for potential annotations that people may
have added, and there is no icon or other indication that a revision actually
*has* annotations. So they are likely to be lost or ignored.
Ideally, annotations would be preserved through wiki edits and apply to newer
revisions of pages. This would likely require updates to the editor.
I realize that this may be technically challenging to implement. However, the
preservations of annotations across edits does seem to be essential for really
ensuring that this extension is useful (In fact, I wouldn't consider this
annotation feature actually fully implemented until this is supported.)
The true ideal implementation would be to display annotations in the editor,
and like a true word processor, track changes to the underlying text to ensure
that the annotation still existed even if the underlying text was modified in
some way, as is how annotations work in word processors. This would have the
added benefit of allowing editors to view annotations in real-time as they are
editing a document, which would be extremely handy as many annotations deal
with changes to the document that need to be made (or at least, should be
addressed in some way during an edit cycle.
Proposed design:
[ editor window top ]
[ Highlighted yellow: Editing this line in the editor.... ]
[ editor window bottom ]
[ Annotation: Display annotation(s) related to cursor position here. ]
[ Button: add comment ] <-- editor would use this to add comment to existing
annotation, related to any edits.
I don't know if that is helpful for conveying how annotations could work in the
editor, or not. I think this should be added to the default editor, and
VisualEditor can add its own support. I don't think this feature should be
VE-only.
A possible work-around to make things a bit more bearable in the mean-time
would be to add some kind of icon in the page history to indicate revisions
that have annotations, so that the maintainer of the page can go through the
page's history and look for annotations from people.
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