TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

History page improvements

Go To

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#1: Jul 20th 2011 at 8:55:34 PM

Can we get something that shows when spacing was changed? I just checked a page on my watchlist and I can't tell any differences.

Fight smart, not fair.
Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
Dragon Writer
#2: Jul 22nd 2011 at 7:26:33 AM

Like using a segment with a different background color for whitespace changes?

An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#3: Jul 22nd 2011 at 6:51:44 PM

Something. Or at least something that flags something as a null edit, if that's what happened.

Fight smart, not fair.
TiggersAreGreat Since: Mar, 2011
#4: Jan 19th 2013 at 6:04:32 AM

Hey, I have a suggestion for improving a history page...putting in a search function.

It's like this: On a number of pages, I fix up examples to conform to Example Indentation In Trope Lists standards, and I send private messages to folks who made mistakes with the indentations to let them know. But the job can be difficult, because history pages like Person Of Interest have at least 651 events listed. So it gets difficult to find out where and when entries were added and to verify if the examples added were correctly indented.

If those pages had a search function like the one Adobe Reader has, then life would be so much easier! smile

Oh, Equestria, we stand on guard for thee!
Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#5: Jan 19th 2013 at 6:07:12 AM

I tend to use CTRL+F for that, sometimes along with the "click to show context" button. It's much slower when you have to load a large page history, though.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#6: Jan 19th 2013 at 6:15:23 AM

I think Ctrl+F works well enough for that.

On the other hand, marking changes in text would be useful. Often, I look at a page history and have absolutely no idea why that paragraph of text was changed.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
ArcadesSabboth from Mother Earth Since: Oct, 2011
#7: Jan 21st 2013 at 5:33:40 PM

Ctrl+F is good enough for me. But marking text changes would be nice.

I'm not sure what the above poster meant by a mark for null edits. Whenever I make those, it shows clearly in the history, because there's no blocks of changed, deleted, or added text. It gives edit reason, time, and username, but nothing else.

Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.
FELH2 TV Tropes' very wikibot Since: May, 2012
TV Tropes' very wikibot
#8: Jan 30th 2013 at 2:48:58 PM

But there is somethign else we could use for problematic edits: A holler button, next to the natterfy button, just like in the forum.

Get rid of the walled garden
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#9: Jan 30th 2013 at 2:51:01 PM

That is what Ask The Tropers is for. And it's far better than hollers.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#10: Jan 30th 2013 at 3:18:29 PM

Every page has a holler button, if you can't go to ATT for some reason.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#11: Jan 31st 2013 at 1:30:19 AM

It's in the sidebar, by the way.

"This article needs some moderator assistance with: "

edited 31st Jan '13 1:30:45 AM by SeptimusHeap

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
FELH2 TV Tropes' very wikibot Since: May, 2012
TV Tropes' very wikibot
#12: Feb 1st 2013 at 1:16:55 PM

Yes, I understand what you mean, but I still think that a holler button in the page history wouldn't be harder to implement than the natterfy button. And it would have the advantage of telling immediately which edit by which troper was a problem - let alone that it would be faster than writing up a post with details manually.

Get rid of the walled garden
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#13: Feb 1st 2013 at 1:19:08 PM

I don't think it makes things really that easier. And it would be yet another @#&@#& Black Box.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
FELH2 TV Tropes' very wikibot Since: May, 2012
TV Tropes' very wikibot
#14: Feb 4th 2013 at 3:41:16 PM

Sorry, but I really don't understand your point.

Get rid of the walled garden
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#15: Feb 5th 2013 at 3:51:56 AM

In short, the benefit of such a thing is really small. Not really worth it.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#16: Feb 15th 2016 at 2:26:27 PM

Done, holler buttons in the page history ought to get a Query Wishlist topic if anything.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Add Post

Total posts: 16
Top