Some updates about the tool. - Added support for 18 other languages (no Indic languages yet), most of them seem to work. - Added a play/pause button, so that the user can go grab a coffee in between :-) - Changes to the layout , now it looks more like a player with controls. -
You can try the demo here<https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html> Thanks Jeph On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:10 AM, jeph <jephp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > The current plan is to make it into a js gadget. The demo is a standalone > tool and I'll move it to tools.wmflabs.org soon. > I had chatted with the mobile developers about having something similar on > the mobile web to view the changes , so my long term goal is to integrate > it into the mobile extension , I think it would be better placed on > mobiles than on desktops , but I'dont plan to do this right away. > > Thanks > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < > suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> On 08/25/2013 06:45 AM, jeph wrote: >> > Hi , >> > I'm an IEG grantee from India. My >> > proposal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits> was >> > to build a tool to visualise the edits in an article. >> > It aims to make it easier for an editor to go through the >> edits/revisions >> > in an article. Rather than showing the changes in wikitext the tool >> shows >> > the page as a reader would see it. The content that was removed/ >> deleted in >> > a revision disappears & the new content/ modifications appears. >> > >> > - Please checkout the live >> > demo< >> https://googledrive.com/host/0B1hJO1N6piYFTTVZdW1mU2c0S28/visualise.html> >> > . >> > - An updated >> > mockup< >> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1hJO1N6piYFMWUzVkpsR2dmUFU/edit?usp=sharing >> > >> > of the tool >> > >> > It is a work in progress and I'm working on the following features. >> > >> > - Pause/Forward/Rewind buttons >> > - Draggable timeline , you can select from where to start playing & >> > where to end. >> > - Skipping minor edits etc >> > - Playback of a specific users edits alone. (I'm not sure how I'll do >> > this) >> > >> > Would be awesome if you could add features you would like to see >> > here< >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/Replay_Edits#Features_for_the_tool%23Features_for_the_tool >> >. >> > Moreover now that wikipedia has gone live with editing on mobiles >> > I'm hoping the tool would be really useful there too as mobiles are >> much >> > more interactive than desktops. I'm trying to talk to as many people as >> > possible about the tool so that people will use it once I'm done >> building >> > it & also to be sure that what I'm building is useful :-) Please share >> the >> > demo link around. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Jeph >> >> >> Hi, Jeph! Thank you for sharing this demo. >> >> I also encourage any coders on this list to help out Jeph with the code, >> which is at https://github.com/cosmiclattes/wikireplay . >> >> Jeph, I can see a few directions this could go. You could perhaps try to >> get it integrated into MediaWiki itself, like the page information >> action (e.g. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tulsi_Gabbard&action=info ). >> Or you could make it a standalone tool on tools.wmflabs.org, like >> http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/articleinfo/ I think, and perhaps get it >> linked to in the "External tools" section of the page info action or the >> page edit history in our Wikipedias. Or you could try to join forces >> with another team or suite of tools like the RENDER toolset (example: >> https://toolserver.org/~RENDER/toolkit/ChangeDetector/ ) -- still >> external to MediaWiki, but benefiting from a team approach. >> >> What do you think you will try to do? >> >> Thanks! >> -- >> Sumana Harihareswara >> Engineering Community Manager >> Wikimedia Foundation >> > >
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