https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13462
Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |design CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> 2011-10-07 23:35:50 UTC --- 'This is a general feature request for more intelligence in deciding what lines are "equivalent".' I agree with Random832. An acquaintance of mine gives this example: http://dbclass.saintjoe.edu/wiki/index.php/Demo_Context The diff: http://dbclass.saintjoe.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Demo_Context&diff=2773&oldid=2772 This person teaches English composition. He uses MediaWiki to do it. His students type their essays into MediaWiki, he improves them via an edit, and then they look at the diff together to understand what he changed and why. He finds that the diff calculation in MediaWiki is not robust enough and fails to sensibly show linebreak changes in some instances, and that this makes it much harder to use the diffs as a teaching tool. "There were very minimal changes made to the article between the first and second revisions; however, I did add a number of paragraph breaks, and coalesced a couple of paragraphs. "You can see that the paragraph breaks caused the diff "discernment function" to identify whole paragraphs as changes, when in fact all that happened with the addition of a simple line break." Adding the "design" keyword to ping a designer to consider what we should really be doing regarding various diff generation and diff-viewing edge cases. -- 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
