https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21860
John Erling Blad <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #14 from John Erling Blad <[email protected]> 2010-07-12 20:13:52 UTC --- An additional field for one or more digests would be very useful for analysis purposes. Examples are WikiDasboard-like gadgets that shows who wrote the bulk of the content [1] (screendump from Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia [2]), history trees showing revert activity [3], identification of type of action, etc. This will have uses at least on the history page, the user contributions page and the recent changes page. For some types of analysis the size of the content is sufficient, and if better identification is necessary the content for the revisions that seems similar because of the size can be downloaded, yet it would be better to have a digest instead. By using digests it won't be necessary to branch out to some special code to download additional information, the information would be readily available. Calculating the value in the server each time they are used does not seems to be viable, yet it could be calculated if it is missing and then stored in the database. Different use may need different digests, but a MD5-like digest of the complete article and a Nilsimsa-like digest should be sufficient for most purposes. Not sure how Nilsimsa would turn out for large articles... [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/wikidashboard-revisited/ [2] http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Skjermdump-history-graphic.png [3] http://www.grouplens.org/node/427 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
