Last modified: 2007-01-14 10:50:25 UTC
Many requests on the servers are done in order to watch changes (whether it is vandalism or not). When users check differences between versions, they don't necessarily want to have the most recent version being displayed. It would be a good enhancement if any logged user could choose: displaying the changed version or not?
I thought that the History page allows you to choose whichever diff you wish to see? The reason for the most recent change being shown under something like Recent Changes is because, logically, that is what the user expects to see. Could you explain further if I've misunderstood?
I think there is a misunderstanding! When you compare two versions of an article, you can see what's changed between both articles seeing their code and you see also the rendering corresponding with the last code. That's true when you click "diff" in the RC, and when you compare two versions of an article via the History. I'd like to disable the rendering in my individual preferences, since the servers are overwhelmed with such requests only to check the nature of recent Changes. Nice day Benoit Mortgat
Oh, I see. Yes, I'd agree with that logic.
This would be very useful indeed. You don't need to see the whole page to track down vandalism and such.
I agree this would be useful. see bug #3365 and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical% 29#Bare_diffs.3F>
Created attachment 1357 [details] patch without user pref This patch adds the diffonly flag which suppresses the article display if present.
*** Bug 3365 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 208 may be related (the external API), but I don't think they have anything to do with each other. Lupin, would you be able to extend user preferences to make diffonly apply globally?
Created attachment 1374 [details] add user pref There's an option in Special:Preferences with this patch, under "Misc". You can override that setting using diffonly=0 or diffonly=1 in the url.
Created attachment 1375 [details] patch with user pref Oops, forgot Messages.php - apologies.
I'm leery of adding preference options; they complicate things.
Created attachment 2127 [details] patch with user pref and "show diff with article" link I added a "Show diff with article" link in diff generated page with diffonly flag enabled. Pref or not pref, I think "diffonly" it's fine feature.
*** Bug 8488 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 6936 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in r19141 based on a combination of Francesco's patch with a similar change I'd written myself.
So how does it work? How can this be implemented into our regular wiki usage?
(In reply to comment #16) > So how does it work? How can this be implemented into our regular wiki usage? This the the commit description: (bug 3446) Add user preference to hide page content below diffs, can be overridden by adding diffonly=1 or diffonly=0 to the URL of the diff page I think it's clear enough.
Thank you. (Not "Francesco's patch", but Lupin)
