On 01/18/2011 12:30 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > On 01/17/2011 11:36 PM, masti wrote: >> what is the reason and what it can bring to the community? > > I tried to describe this. The task of finding out the > history of a part of an article is very time consuming > for long articles with a long history, where you have > to manually look through lots of revisions that aren't > related to the part of the article you are interested in. > > I took as the example the part of the flat geography > of the city of Paris. Was this part controversial? Who > edited it? Has it changed? When and by whom? > > Most edits to the article Paris are probably related to > new elections, new buildings, new institutions. Most > edits have nothing to do with the flat geography. > So could the history view of maybe 5000 edits > be quickly reduced down to 50 edits or even 5? > > In this rare situation it could be beneficial, but does it really make sense in general? Workload and complication of interface, in my opinion, is not worth it.
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