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Improve Diff view to facilitate review of complex edits
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We received these suggestions from on of the Indonesian patrollers:

"Actually, I already know and tried this anti-vandalism feature and it is really amazing. I've been hoping for quite some time that there would be an easy way to patrol the latest changes via smartphone and this feature fulfills my hopes.

Furthermore, I found no problems regarding this feature. My only problem is not directly related to this feature but rather the revision difference feature in the Wikipedia app. This revision difference feature works for trivial edits, but when reviewing large edits it becomes very inefficient and difficult to use compared to the desktop version. So the reason I rarely review edits via the Wikipedia application is because the revision difference feature is still less efficient and difficult to use compared to the desktop version.

Additionally I have one question: will the pending changes feature be implemented in the Wikipedia app? As a reviewer of pending changes on Indonesian Wikipedia, this feature would also be very useful to me (and perhaps other editors) if implemented."

Event Timeline

Dbrant renamed this task from Enhancement Request for patroller feature to Enhancement Request for revision diff feature.Feb 26 2024, 1:23 PM

Regarding pending changes, we can't work on that at this time, it requires some technical investigation but will keep this in mind.

Request to Amal to investigate examples of the diff page being too long with the user

Just a note regarding pending changes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs

Flagged Revisions is very clunky, complex and not recommended for production use, despite the "stable" tag. See phab:T185664. This extension has not been installed on any new WMF wikis since 2014.

@JTannerWMF , emailed the user, will update it here when he replies.

HNordeenWMF renamed this task from Enhancement Request for revision diff feature to Improve Diff view to facilitate review of complex edits.Thu, May 2, 11:08 PM