Author: irrevenoid

Description:
BACKGROUND: Often users forget to sign their posts in talk pages, requiring someone to hunt down the post in the history log and attribute the comment. This is especially a pain when they've accidentally put the comment into the article rather than the discussion page, or other high turnover situations.

PROPOSAL: It would be really useful to be able to somehow select a piece of text and click a button (or whatever) that tells you who wrote that text. It would be good if it provided a link to the appropriate history entry too.

POTENTIAL COMPLICATIONS: Sometimes even a single word has been edited by multiple users (usually for typos). In that case, it would have to give you a list of the users/changes and you could find the right one.

COMMENTS: Not a high priority feature request by any means, but it would make the day-to-day administration of wikipedia (et al) easier.

Thanks.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement