Last modified: 2005-08-22 11:33:43 UTC
The first thing I do when I see the orange (well, at least on the default Monobook skin it's orange) "new messages" box is to bring up my talk page *history* and do a diff between the current version and the last version I remember. It would save me four mouse clicks and some thinking if the MW software did that for me. In addition to simply linking to my talk page from the orange box, a link to a diff between the current version and the version prior to the edit that triggered the orange box could be included (essentially like the collapsed display on "recent changes"). It would also be helpful if the edit summary of the most recent change could be included in the "new messages" box.
(In reply to comment #0) > The first thing I do when I see the orange (well, at least on the default > Monobook skin it's orange) "new messages" box is to bring up my talk page > *history* and do a diff between the current version and the last version I > remember. It would save me four mouse clicks and some thinking if the MW > software did that for me. In addition to simply linking to my talk page from the > orange box, a link to a diff between the current version and the version prior > to the edit that triggered the orange box could be included (essentially like > the collapsed display on "recent changes"). This is subject of http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572 and fully implemented in the special version EnotifWiki, see live on http://www.enotifwiki.org and see a screen of the modified marker on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Newmessage.png *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1572 ***
