Last modified: 2009-11-02 18:03:42 UTC
For purposes of determining who did what to an article when, it is often unhelpful to see a list of many often minor edits in a row by one editor, without summaries. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liquid_Cooling_and_Ventilation_Garment&action=history (I admit that I am often that editor, especially when starting an article.) I suggest that unbroken runs of unsummarized edits by a single editor be collapsed in the history display, with a [+] to expand and a parenthetical number indicating the number of edits collapsed together. This will increase the chunk of edit history that can reasonably be displayed on a page, and make browsing histories easier. Obviously, these cumulative edits should be marked minor only if all the enclosed edits were so marked. (A more conservative alternative would be to only collapse minor-marked edits to begin with.)
You mean similar to the enhanced RecentChanges? Where instead of per article, then per editor? Seems likely, since the code already exist to produce the result. Then again, the design of the history page is vastly different from the RecentChanges/Watchlist page. Regarding the radio buttons to select comparison in edits, collapsed lines should still retain, but the 'newest' radio button should refer to the newest edit while the 'oldest' radio button to the oldest edit, and this should obviously be reflected upon expansion.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19247 ***
