This is indeed a needed improvement. Great work! Sam. ________________________________ From: Wikitech-l <wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Subramanya Sastry <ssas...@wikimedia.org> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:08:01 PM To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Improvements to the wikitext diff view
This is good work and a nice feature. Thanks! Subbu. On 08/23/2018 08:14 AM, Michael Schönitzer wrote: > Hi, > > > As you may know, the team Technical Wishes of Wikimedia Deutschland has > worked on improving the wikitext diff view for over a year in order to fix > a technical limitation: Whenever a paragraph was moved to another position > on the page, it was displayed as a removed and added paragraph and users > had to manually check if the text in the paragraph was altered or not. > > With the improvements in the diff code, the algorithm now recognizes > paragraphs as moved, displays moved paragraphs as such and highlights > changes within them. The desktop version of this was already deployed to > most wikis end of May. Since today it’s available on all wikis. More > details and before/after screenshots can be found here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Show_text_changes_when_moving_text_chunks > > As of today, moved paragraphs are also shown correctly on mobile. The > Wikimedia Foundation’s Readers Web team developed styles for the mobile > diff view, based on the recent improvements in the wikidiff code. > > A big thanks to everyone involved, especially to the Readers Web team for > bringing the feature to mobile devices! > > Michi > > for the Technical Wishes team > > PS: Diffs are cached for up to 7 days, so it might take a few days until > diffs of previous changes are generated with the new version. > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
