Hi, I created such an extension [1] to return to the exact rendering of a page at a given time. It is still experimental and need some other improvements, particularly to take into account the moves and deletions applied on a template.
~ Seb35 [^_^] [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BackwardsTimeTravel 2010/3/22 Liangent <liang...@gmail.com> wrote: > Besides template histories, can we add a parameter > 'index.php?action=view&time=xxx' to allow users to read as if they > read an article at that time, and append this parameter with the same > value to all (internal) links in the article? > In this way, we can have nostalgia wikis (like > http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage ) at any time. > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 AM, Trev <wikipe...@wavesculptor.com> wrote: >> Hi, See you see a fix that could be made for this "user issue" rather than >> "bug"? >> >> The fix required is: when rendering **history** states of pages, rendering >> contemporary history state of any {{transclusions}}, rather than latest >> state, as happens now. This would make a lot of editors happier, and some >> less concerned about "banning" the use of inter-article transcludes. >> >> See below at >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Transclusion_History, >> and other links contained. >> >> Best, Trev M. >> >> == Transclusion History == >> >> See >> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Summary_style#Problems_with_partial_transclusions_and_page_histories >> this discussion] >> >> Sometimes editors involved in disputes want to see an article as it was a >> while ago, and then look at the changes made. If the article transcludes >> content from another article, they will see the old version of the article >> but the current version of the transcluded content, which is confusing. Is >> there a way in which they could see the old version of the article with the >> transcluded content as of the date/time that version was created? This could >> be a big improvement. Thanks, [[User:Aymatth2|Aymatth2]] ([[User >> talk:Aymatth2|talk]]) 23:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC) >> >> :ItÅås not possible as the software is currently written, though I agree it >> would be a useful feature. Designing a “gadget” which re-parses from old >> template revisions using javascript and the API might be (remotely) feasible >> (albeit madness—yet IÅåm not above attempting a proof-of-concept if/when I >> find the time). Å\[[User talk:AoV2|AoV©˜]] 14:21, 21 March 2010 (UTC) >> >> It doesn't seem that difficult (easy for me to say). The change would be: >> "when transcluding content into a historical view of a page, select the most >> recent version of the source page that was created no later than the date of >> the target page". That way the historical view would show the page as it >> really looked at that time, rather than a jumble of past and present. Many >> editors would be deeply grateful for the improvement! >> [[User:Aymatth2|Aymatth2]] ([[User talk:Aymatth2|talk]]) 16:13, 21 March >> 2010 (UTC) >> >> *Posting a summary of this and links at the '''bugzilla.wikimedia.org''' >> mailing list, see what interest appears from those with their finger on the >> wiki software pulse. <span style="font-family: 'Brush script MT', >> cursive;font-size:1.5em;vertical-align:middle;"> [[User:Trev M| Trev M ]] >> [[User_talk:Trev_M| ~ ]]</span> 19:47, 21 March 2010 (UTC) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
