User:SebastianHelm/wishlist
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This page is meant for listing wishes that I have already submitted or plan to submit for improving Wikipedia. It is by no means complete as I'm only adding new ideas as they pop up; there are many older ones in various locations on Wikipedia, and I haven't gotten around digging them up.
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[edit] Vandalism related wishes
Of course, my first wish is that we had less vandalism, but that goes without saying.
[edit] One-click vandal fighting
Vandalism fight: I'm not a dedicated fighter myself; I revert it when I see it, but I don't look for it. I would do more if it were easier technically. Basically, I don't see why editors in good standing can't automatically get a "V" button next to each article in our watchlist that means "Now this was vandalism!" and does all the rest for you, such as writing the user warning. Display: revertions folded would then display the edit previous to that vandalism.
[edit] Display: User edits folded
Why in the world do we need to always list every individual edit each single user makes? If a user did several consecutive edits, why not simply fold them into one? There could be a "+" button next to it to it to unfold them, but I would use that button very seldom. Similarly, the "previous" and "next" buttons in the diff view should just skip to the next user's edit. (If people really insist on keeping the microstep view then we could display that whenever applicable.
[edit] Display: revertions folded
In addition to "m" for minor edits and "b" for bot edits, add "r" for reversions. Any reversion would just automatically be marked with an "r".
The "fold reversions view" would look very much like the "related changes" list. There you have a little triangle to the left, which you can expand to see all recent changes, and a parenthesis like (2 changes) that shows the overall change. For the "fold reversions" view, of course, the parenthesis would not show the overall change, which would be nothing, but a list of all texts involved in the changes.
I don't even think we need the old view anymore, but there will always be people who prefer the old style, so we probably need to provide a choice in the preferences.
(See also User talk:Philip Trueman#What to do about frozen vandalism)
[edit] Trace text
I feel we need a way to easily find out when and by whom a certain passage of text was introduced or deleted.
- Why necessary?
- This is necessary for various editing and vandalism fighting tasks, such as the following: In article A, I see some obvious vandalism (text insertion or deletion). Currently, I look at the last change. In the best case that change is the vandalism in question. However, that is not the vandalism I'm looking for. In that case, I currently go back change by change until I find the vandalism. That is a tedious work which is more appropriate for a computer.
- Submitted
- Not yet
- Possible implementation - simple
- A tool could work as follows: The editor could enter the added, changed or deleted text, and the tool would list any changes containing this change in the article's history. If performance is an issue, the tool could limit the search to a date range.
- Possible implementation - ideally
- In addition to the "action=history" view of articles, we could have a view in which all texts are highlighted in a color depending on when that change was performed. Deleted text would be folded into a plus sign and unfold when editor clicks on them. Right-click on or hovering over a change would show when and by whom it was changed.
[edit] Other
[edit] Deletion request notification
- Submitted
- 21:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC) at WP:BOTREQ#Deletion request notification
