Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Allow past edits to be filtered by size
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Allow past edits to be filtered by size
- Problem: Records of edits, whether in page history, recent changes patrol or user edit history are often crowded by relatively insignificant minor edits, making it difficult to find edits that have made more substantial changes and therefore require greater scrutiny.
- Who would benefit: Editors interested in reviewing major changes to Wikipedia.
- Proposed solution: Enable records of edits to be filtered by the size of the change (by specific number characters added or removed).
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Keepcalmandchill (talk) 04:46, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
- This would be handy. I often want to find just the major contributions while looking at my watchlist or at an article's history. Abductive (talk) 11:43, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
- How about merging all recent edits by the same editor into one, and then showing diffs (each edit in different color, perhaps)? I assume most edits are good; if one is bad, you go back and check one by one. Ponor (talk) 21:28, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
- See also Miscellaneous/Add filters to history pages. the wub "?!" 15:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Changes that are small in size are not necessarily minor in content. Sneaky vandalism or falsification can radically change content with a zero-byte change. Nurg (talk) 08:55, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Une modification peut être désignée comme mineure ou apparaître comme mineure (1 lettre, 1 mot changé, voire une ponctuation) et pourtant, être du vandalisme ou une modification importante à vérifier. Cdmt' --Mylenos (talk) 12:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Voting
- Neutral I genuinely fail to understand how that feature will be useful to anyone. MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 18:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Jax MN (talk) 18:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support --NGC 54 (talk / contribs) 19:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 04:15, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(留言.百科用戶頁) 04:33, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Xinbenlv (talk) 05:55, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support P40fA (talk) 07:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- {{Neutral}} vs {{oppose}} (n'écrivant qu'en mode visuel, je ne sais pas écrire "contre" en code - Mylenos (talk) 12:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment @Mylenos: Veux-tu que je t'aide? Si tu es contre quelque chose, tu peux utiliser {{oppose}} MarioSuperstar77 (talk) 13:55, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Merci Mario. (Voilà encore un problème rencontré par les contributeurs du mode visuel ; et je ne sais pas écrire le petit "+" vert. Pas grave.) Cordialement' - Mylenos (talk) 21:59, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Would help to save time in monitoring Jjkorff (talk) 13:34, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Drernie (talk) 04:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Toom0007 11:22, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 14:35, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support TheLatentOne (talk) 19:58, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Yes, but as one of several better filtering options, like by user, by section edited, by string/regex in the edit, etc. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 06:41, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support RanuKanu (talk) 09:43, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support — Draceane talkcontrib. 12:57, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support רון18 (talk) 07:31, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support If there was an option, then of course the usage of Wikipedia would become more versatile and handier. Thanks! JN Dela Cruz (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support but I think we may need to think about UI design, and not simply filter by text size change. This ties into other proposals for better diffs like Better diff handling of paragraph splits and Copy and paste from diffs. I recall a tool by Wikimedia Deutschland which had an excellent visual interface for choosing diffs. If you are interested in ANY large edits, the Listen to Wikipedia visualization has actually been useful. HLHJ (talk) 22:39, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support EEMIV (talk) 14:47, 21 December 2020 (UTC)