Topic on Extension talk:RevisionSlider

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

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.