masti wrote:
> 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.
> 
> masti

I think it makes sense, but more as an external tool which selected them
for you.
There are tools like http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php which
aim to do these things, but although I don't think they are so good,
they may be a good place to start.


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