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.Something. Or at least something that flags something as a null edit, if that's what happened.
Fight smart, not fair.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!
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.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 FeynmanCtrl+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.
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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 gardenThat 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 FeynmanEvery page has a holler button, if you can't go to ATT for some reason.
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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 gardenI 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 FeynmanDone, 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

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.
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