Extension talk:RevisionSlider/2020
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| Solved by the VisualEditor team via phab:T288636. | |
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Steps to reproduce:
- Go to https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/196198177, a special link redirecting you to the diff with ID 196198177.
- Now click on that slider somewhere else (choose ano0ther diff via single click).
- Look at the URL!
What happens:
The URL changes for one second when I click to choose another diff – to the correct other URL/ID, but changes back. directly afterwards
It stays on: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=196198177&diffmode=visual
What should happen:
A different URL should be shown.
Impact:
Exaqctly for that diff tool in https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff I do need to find the IDs (I usually copy them from that URL), so this makes it impossible here.
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rugk (talk) 21:45, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- Looks like RevisionSlider and VisualDiff extension are conflicting with each other. Please follow the steps written in How_to_report_a_bug and report this issue to Phabricator. Ainz Ooal Gown (talk) 21:55, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- Done: phab:T245163 rugk (talk) 15:55, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
The instruction says "To compare certain revisions, select the revisions using the yellow and blue knobs. [...] blue knob controls the newer revision, the yellow knob maps to the older revision.", but the interface shows green controls the newer revision, the red knob maps to the older revision. Please review the discrepancy. Thank you. Pyll0 (talk) 05:08, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
- On which wiki are you experiencing this? Many wikis provide a user setting (usually in the gadgets section) to set the orange/blue color scheme back to the older red/green color scheme. It appears like you have this enabled. Can you please check if this is the case? Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 15:32, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Thiemo, am experiencing this on Wikipedia. This is the first time I learned that the colors could be customized. However, I could not identify such settings under Gadgets tab and Beta features tab. Could you provide more details? Pyll0 (talk) 16:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Technically, at least in some cases this is deliberate. For instance the Visual diffs deliberately sets the color to green/red. See mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Multimedia/Standup_notes/2017/June&type=revision&diff=2503669&oldid=2501914&visualdiff&diffmode=visual
- It might make more sense to change the instructions to refer to Top knob and bottom knob. That way it will be accurate regardless of color . 197.218.85.167 (talk) 15:49, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Wiki-er 197.218.85.167, your explanation is insightful. It is okay if the colors cannot be set in my case. I know better about how the system works now.
- Hope my feedback will be an input to the design team. Pyll0 (talk) 16:36, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- That was all very helpful, thanks a lot! I found multiple scripts that change the color scheme from yellow/blue to something else, typically red/green. In your case it's most probably the "Visual differences" Beta feature. I like the idea to change the text and will suggest exactly that. Now tracked in phab:T247662. Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 14:09, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
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Please make the RevisionSlider right-to-left for languages like Persian, Arabic, etc. Thanks. Taranet (talk) 13:55, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what the problem is. The extension was extensively tested on RTL wikis, and still seems to work: Example. What are you missing? Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) 14:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
- I use it a lot in RTL. IKhitron (talk) 14:13, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
What's really needed here is a tooltip when I hover over a change, and the tooltip shows me the last user to edit the text where I'm hovering, the date they made the change, and their comments for the change. There could be more UI than that, but attribution of changes in multi-edit view is the key issue that needs to be fixed. I suppose that could be done in a more complicated way using the histogram chart that is being created here, but it seems like an unnecessary complication.
There are 10 bugs asking for edit attribution as a feature and it was a top rated user request. See bug T2639: [Epic] Add feature annotate/blame command, to indicate who last changed each line / word Efbrazil (talk) 23:48, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
- I wanted to add that this is the feature I still want, much more than a revision slider. When I revisit a topic after an absence and their are many changes, I want to view all of them in flow, to see if the overall article is still in good shape. When I see a particular change I don't understand or disagree with, I want to be able to view the comments for that change and to jump to that particular diff. From there, I can go to the talk page to discuss the change or back it out with a comment that replies to the original comment. The revision slider is very awkward for that workflow, and it is not clear to me what workflow the revision slider is better for. Efbrazil (talk) 15:24, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
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Hi! Love your work and was curious if it would be possible to render with some distinction big periods of non-editing time as gaps?
It would be great to start with visualization showing the waveform of actual start to present with gaps *(even if that view is just one static image at the start), so that one can see quickly what was chronological dynamics over time. Zblace (talk) 13:22, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
- Or maybe just indicate years on the histogram chart. 73.129.159.183 (talk) 11:59, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for the praise and your suggestion, @Zblace. I have a created a Phabricator ticket so we will have this on our radar if we pick up working on the RevisionSlider again. This is currently not planned, though.
- Best,
- Johanna Johanna Strodt (WMDE) (talk) 10:01, 24 November 2022 (UTC)