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Is there any way to see the age of the text on a wikipedia page? Might be a good way to combat the sense that everything on the page is solid. If most of the pa
by macrael 15y ago
Is there any way to see the age of the text on a wikipedia page? Might be a good way to combat the sense that everything on the page is solid. If most of the page is years old except for a couple of sentances from the last two days, I might check the history to see the motivation behind the change.
- thwarted 15y agoI was thinking that an interface that colored content based on how old it was would be pretty cool. Then I realized that, duh, a SCM style blame function would be cool for wikipedia (which may be available in the diff functionality, I don't remember or use the history diffing ability on wikipedia enough to know off hand). Then I thought, it would be nice to have wikipedia content in SCM anyway, and was thinking of writing something to import it into git. And it may already exist. A search turned up http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation and the code is at https://github.com/scy/levitation https://github.com/scy/levitation
- esrauch 15y agoI've seen a lot of proposals for wikipedia to go over to a system that has this sort of thing, I think the primary issue is that it's difficult to come up with a visual indication of this information without significantly detracting from the usability.
- kahirsch 15y agoSee http://www.wikitrust.net/ http://www.wikitrust.net/ I just tried it on the Paul Revere page and it said "There is no trust coloring information currently available for the revision you requested. Please try again in about a minute, when the coloring should be complete." For comparison, I tried it on Halitosis and go this: http://imgur.com/PNBXU http://imgur.com/PNBXU The colored stuff is newer.