On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote:
> Many articles are soo long, and have been edited so many
> times, that the history view is almost useless. If I want
> to find out when and how the sentence "Overall, the city
> is relatively flat"in the article [[en:Paris]] has changed
> over time, I can sit all day and analyze individual diffs.
>
> 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?

How would you define a particular sentence, paragraph or section of an
article?  The difficulty of the solution lies in answering that
question.

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