On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it would be very useful if I could highlight a
> sentence, paragraph or section of an article and get a
> reduced history view with only those edits that changed
> that part of the page. What sorts of indexes would be needed
> to facilitate such a search? Has anybody already implemented
> this as a separate tool?

The New York Times has made some progress in this area.[0] Of course,
their articles don't get edited the way Wikipedia ones do...

I've tried using WikiBlame[1] a few times, but it operates at the
level of strings, rather than sections/paragraphs/sentences, so, like
you, I'm left to do most of my digging by hand.  Glad to know I'm not
alone in my pain. :-)

[0] http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/emphasis-update-and-source/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Flominator/WikiBlame

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