> If you are a historian with all the time in the world, an Etherpad session of T.S. Eliot composing The Waste Land would be awesome. But would it have been so

> If you are a historian with all the time in the world, an Etherpad session of T.S. Eliot composing The Waste Land would be awesome. But would it have been so awesome to Eliot? This is the key. We want to see that revision history and only in retrospect for a tiny proportion of writers in the world. I'm not convinced that the writers themselves have any motivation to do so, especially with the UX complexities that as you point out would be necessary. If the people in the position to do it have no motivation to do it, it won't happen. And then there's the other side of the coin. A writer may prefer not to show people drafts. Imagine a politician doing it. At the moment we vet things before we publish them. We do this for various reasons including for confidential information and to avoid upsetting people. How much more of a burden will it be to vet all revision history for this too?