Topic on Talk:Structured Discussions

• Something I liked about the wiki system is I could correct others. I'm not talking about ortography mistakes but about broken links and something obviously wrong or missleading. Maybe an option could be added to propose a correction to the author, but I would like if this correction could be seen/accessible somehow before the author accepts or rejects the correction.
• I miss the "wiki" editing box, where I can add symbols (like « ») and formating like listing (*) or bold letters (that). Now I wonder if this is going to be like the old code editor or like the visual editor.

We're actually going to try out allowing users to edit other people's posts in a couple of weeks. There'll be a link to edit in the dropdown menu. If you edit somebody else's post, then the timestamp will say "Edited by Ssola 1 minute ago".

This has always been possible for admins. Is the plan to expand to autoconfirmed editors? I really don't believe that we are improving communication by making it easy for IPs to vandalize other people's comments.

Exactly. Autoconfirmed+ will be the next step that is tried, and just at the wikis that have requested it: phab:T90670.

(edited by BanjoDog (Danny) because editing is now available to autoconfirmed users -- sssh don't tell anyone)

Also, the link with text "March 26, 2015 5:33 PM" (whose text I was not able to copy because it keeps hiding when I try to select it!) points to https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sdjk2ce202ud1fl0&action=history where I didn't find an easy way to see what was changed. Then I tried the "prev" link to https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sdjk2ce202ud1fl0&action=compare-post-revisions&topic_newRevision=sea6olf6raeposmg

and got

(same problem for the "cur" link)

fix for this BadMethodCallException on compare-*-revision pages going out in ~4 hours

Interesting, I don't recall seeing a notification for this reply...

I guess collapsing notifications as in

"Foo and N others responded on Talk:Flow."

is not that useful...

I reported the timestamp issue at phab:T94353.

I reported the last issue at phab:T94087.

The previous comment was edited by two people (BanjoDog and me), but it only mentions my username (I edited it last).

Thanks for pointing that out -- we recently fixed the prev/next function for diffs, and it would make more sense for the "Edited by X" link to take you straight to the most recent diff.

The purpose of that text is to flag that someone edited the post who isn't the original author. I don't think that putting more than one name in that field makes it any more informative; you still wouldn't know who edited what. But linking to the diff would help you to browse through all of the revisions. I'll make a ticket.

@Danny: Did you create a ticket for this? If so, please merge with phab:T94355.

Yes, I did -- it's phab:T94090. I'll respond on your ticket, too.