Very excited to see this get deployed widely. Very timely actually! Congrats to the team!
Best, Victoria > On May 30, 2018, at 6:34 AM, Birgit Müller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > over the past 1,5 years WMDE’s Technical Wishes team was working on a major > improvement of wikidiff2 [1] - the engine behind the wikitext diff view. > The major outcome of our improvements got deployed to most wikis just now: > It is now easier to find moved paragraphs and text changes inside them. [2] > > > Why we worked on this: > > The idea for the project arose from the wishlist of the German-speaking > communities: Show text changes in moved paragraphs. Before we worked on > this, moved paragraphs were shown in the diff as a deleted paragraph and > then as an added paragraph. This meant that you had to parse visually > through the paragraphs to find any potential changes - a fact that vandals > liked to make use of. [3] > > > Desktop version, mobile version > > The desktop version of the feature already got deployed to Mediawiki.org > and deWP in December 2017. After further improvements of the diff > algorithm, the change could now get deployed to most wikis. The languages > unified Han, Thai and Japanese that don’t use spaces as delimiters will > follow soon. > The mobile version is in the making and will follow in the next weeks. The > backend work has been done by the WMDE team, the WMF’s mobile team is > taking care of the design work for the user interface of the mobile version. > > Improving the algorithm of wikidiff2: More than a new feature > > The work that has been done goes further than the original wish: First of > all, we not only highlighted text changes within a moved paragraph, but > also made it easier to find moved paragraphs in the first place: Clickable > arrows allow to follow the move of the paragraph. > Second, we generally improved the diff algorithm: For example, we could > find an old bug in the diff engine: Sometimes two paragraphs which are not > related at all were considered a changed paragraph. The bug fix was already > deployed in October 2017. [4] > > If you are interested in learning more about the work that has been done, > we're going to publish the lessons learned by the dev team within the next > days (so stay tuned :-) !. > > > Thank you! > > We would like to thank everyone who supported us in the work around > wikidiff2: People from different wikis looked into diffs and gave us > valuable feedback. Moritz Mühlenhoff supported us by updating the library, > and deploying it. Tim Starling and Max Semenik supported us with code > review and consultation during the Vienna Hackathon. The Desktop and Mobile > Web team is going to add a user friendly design to the mobile version. Your > advice, feedback and support is much appreciated :-) > > > Further feedback is very welcome! > > Birgit (for the technical wishes team) > > > [1] Extension manual: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidiff2 > > [2] Deployment ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195375 > > [3] Main project page on meta: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Show_text_changes_when_moving_text_chunks > > [4] Patch on gerrit for the bug fix: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/356582/ > > > -- > Birgit Müller > Community Communications Manager > Software Development and Engineering > > > > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
