Last modified: 2006-12-06 08:36:46 UTC
There should be some note or other indication when one is viewing a diff over multiple edits versus over a single edit. When doing a diff over several revisions in an article's history, such as in the provided URL, the diff view looks identical to a diff over a single edit. In the provided diff URL, it appears that Naconkantari added nonsense to the article, when in actuality there were several edits by other authors between the revisions being compared. This can be problematic because many people assume that links to diffs are for only a single edit, unless otherwise informed.
Note that it's different editors, not different edits, that is the bigger problem; when all the edits in a row were by the same user, it might as well be one edit, but when other people edited in-between it can be misleading because the diff only shows the name of the last contributor.
My suggestion for fixing this is simple: Instead of saying Naconkantari (Talk | contribs) that edit diff should say Naconkantari (Talk | contribs) and 3 others
r18194 adds the number of intervening revisions to the diff view. I have not added the number of distinct editors, since I'd expect it to be harder on the database, and the semantics are somewhat harder to define. (Should the editors of both of the endpoint revisions be excluded? Only one? Neither?)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1616 ***
