Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Archive/Interactive article editing view tool

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Interactive article editing view tool

NoN Proposes existing solution

  • Problem: Sometimes I look up at an article with improvement intention, and see parts of it which are very specific, so I wouldn't need to look all the page's history to find who made that line or fragment.
  • Who would benefit: Everyone who wants to check article edits quickly, and then to edit on them, instead of seeing all the history comparisons.
  • Proposed solution: I propose a new tool, that as the Visual Editing does, has an interface which leads to the editor a direct interaction with the normal article view screen. The thing goes like this:
    • The editor presses the button to open the tool interface.
    • In that interface, the editor is able to click or simply pass by the cursor around the text shown in the article, and then suddenly bringing information about the date a line or related has been last changed, edited, or written. This is basically the history data.
  • More comments: There is no need to go deep into the design part. But a easy way to represent this is by selecting the part of the article you want, and maintaining it in a box, of which the data appears.
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: De un millón (talk) 22:50, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • @De un millón: This exists! Allow me to present to you... Who Wrote That?. This was built by Community Tech in response to the #4 wish on the 2017 survey. It is available as a browser extension. Only a handful of wikis are supported, but I see Spanish Wikipedia is your home wiki, which is supported. Does this work for you? If the browser extension is not satisfactory, you could revise your proposal to turn it into a gadget. I think that would be fine. Or, if there are other Wikipedias you would like to be added, that might make for a good proposal too. Unfortunately we can't add every wiki/language, at least not in the short-term. Let me know what you think! Regards, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 23:06, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MusikAnimal (WMF):I have read the tool overview, but I don't understand why it isn't allowed in mobile devices, wondering it in a general sense; maybe it's due to a format trouble or a storage saturation (perhaps, because the computer/desktop view is faster and more confident).
If there aren't any problems at all, then why not? (At least it should be made to the APP) Regards, --De un millón (talk) 01:04, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@De un millón Extensions for mobile browsers aren't a thing (yet). I can't seem to find a Phabricator task, but I do recall the one of the mobile teams talking about adding Who Wrote That? functionality into the app, so that might be in our future. At any rate, as written this proposal is for something we already built. Would you like to reword it to be about making Who Wrote That? work on mobile, and/or a gadget (if it's a gadget, you can load it in your own Minerva.js)? MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
On open-source mobile phones, extensions to mobile browsers are in beta last I heard. I would like a non-browser-dependent version of this, tho. HLHJ (talk) 02:33, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Actually extensions are a thing for mobile browsers. Firefox v78+ supports only a handful of manually picked extensions, but v68 and before had quite well WebExtensions support; Samsung Internet allows installing browser extensions from Galaxy Store (developers need to join a closed beta); Kiwi Browser allows installing directly from Chrome Web Store; and so on. When Who Wrote That? was developed, Firefox still supported WebExtensions, so it would have been a question of ticking a checkbox to release it on mobile; it was not because of no extension support that it wasn’t released for mobile. It was rather because the current design of the tool simply doesn’t work on touchscreen devices—it shows data on hover, which is not really a thing with touchscreen, and the developers were not willing (so far) to redesign the whole thing. Maybe convert this wish to ask WWT specifically for mobile, and see how it goes? —Tacsipacsi (talk) 23:34, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@De un millón: If you are able to reword the proposal to be about making Who Wrote That? work on mobile, we can accept it. We have until December 8 at 18:00 UTC to fix this (when voting starts). For now, since we haven't heard back from you, I'm going to archive this proposal. We can move it back if the proposal is reworded in time for voting. Thanks for participating in the survey, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 16:07, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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