[pmwiki-users] RFC: Page History & Word-level diffs

Simon nzskiwi at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 22:28:58 CST 2010


I agree with the proposal, having looked at PmWiki and being a long time
user of inline diff
Simon

On 19 February 2010 12:00, ABClf <languefrancaise at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't say more ;)
> +2
>
> Gilles
>
> 2010/2/18 DaveG <pmwiki at solidgone.com>:
> >
> >
> > On 2/17/2010 6:34 PM, Petko Yotov wrote:
> >> Hello. I'd like to request some comments from the community about two
> changes
> >> of the default layout in a page history.
> >>
> >> When authors click on the "History" link, they see the differences
> between
> >> page versions with mostly[1] rendered output, ie. '''bold''' is rendered
> as
> >> bold text, a line starting with "!!" is rendered as a heading,
> [[#anchors]]
> >> are not visible, etc.
> >>
> >> To see the differences in the source-wiki-text, authors need to click on
> the
> >> link "Show changes to markup". It shows then the complete changes in
> plain
> >> text.
> >>
> >> I'd like to read your comments on changing the default page history to
> show
> >> the changes on the source-wiki-text instead of the rendered HTML.
> >>
> >> There will of course be an easy way to revert to the previous way, by
> editing
> >> config.php, or by clicking on the link "Show changes to output".
> >>
> >> I believe authors understand wiki markup and there is no problem for
> them to
> >> look at the source changes -- and it is actually better/easier to
> understand
> >> what happened (and an opportunity to practice for unfrequent editors).
> Other
> >> wiki engines (Mediawiki/Wikipedia) show only changes to the source-text.
> >>
> >> My second question is about the new word-level difference highlighting
> --
> >> should it be enabled by default?
> >>
> >> Admins could of course switch back to plain text, by editing config.php.
> >>
> >> Now it isn't default enabled, and an admin needs to edit config.php. To
> me,
> >> word-level diffs are absolutely valuable[2] and an awesome help when
> reviewing
> >> page changes. I don't see any good reason *not* to enable this for most
> wikis,
> >> but I'd like to know what people from the community think.
> >>
> >> It should be noted that word-level diff highlighting can only work in
> "source
> >> mode", not in rendered HTML output, that's why I'm asking the first
> question.
> > I think both changes are good ideas. I rarely find the default HTML view
> > useful, and usually switch to PmWiki view. I also enable InlineDiff on
> > all my wikis, as this is considerably more useful than the old PmWiki
> way.
> >
> > I guess the real question is why would we *not* do this? I'm not really
> > seeing any downside.
> >
> >  ~ ~ Dave
> >
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