Last modified: 2013-09-26 02:50:43 UTC
Per the referenced Village Pump discussion, please add an approximate "time delta since last modification" field near the existing "last modified" timestamp field at the page footer. Currently says: This page was last modified on June 17, 2009 at 22:55. Want something like: This page was last modified on June 17, 2009 at 22:55 (about 3 hours ago).
Changed component from Wikimedia to MediaWiki. This is a software feature request.
This would be broken into little pieces by cache, and rather useless I think. Here is an experimental gadget. It is necessarly a big ugly horrible mash of functions to find what timezone offset the time given was actually in (one can NOT assume it is the same as the browser's): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Splarka/lastmod.js What could be done, is to have <li id="lastmod"> contain a comment like: <li id="lastmod"> This page was last modified on 18 June 2009 at 00:54. <!--1245316447--> </li> This then could very easily be parsed as a Unix timestamp by javascript, making the above gadget about 1/10th the size, with no API calls. There would also be no cache issues. Suggest repurpose the bug for exposing unix time (hidden?) into the <li>.
Sounds good. The VPP discussion suggested JavaScript would likely need to be employed to avoid breaking caching.
Okay, it looks like all skins have the "last modified" text. per Skin::lastModified However, they are not in an object with consistent class or id. It can be <li id="lastmod">, <li id="foot-info-lastmod">, <p>, etc. Suggest changing the bug to request the function to either: 1) return $s wrapped in a <span id="lastmodmsg"> (excluding the "wfMsg('laggedslavemode')" <strong> msg) and insert the unix timestamp as a comment: <!--1245316447--> inside the span. 2) just wrap the comment in a span with unique ID (a bit silly). 3) just inserting the comment anywhere on the page (probably in the lastmod function, for convenience) but with identifying characteristics, such as a non-translated consistent string: <!--lastmod:1245316447-->. Any of these would make it easy enough to report a much more accurate time since last edit in javascript, even with cache.
If it's going to be included at all, just stick it in the JS vars...
> If it's going to be included at all, just stick it in the JS vars... Oh come on, where is the challenge in that ^_^. wgCurRevisionTimestamp?
