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Provide an easy way to get a diff against an old revision of a page while editing it
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Suppose someone makes a big change on page Foo or Template:Bar, and gets reverted because some other user found a problem in the new revision. The first user may want to improve its original change, and to do that, he/she may open his/her old version from the page history (i.e., oldid=12345) and then open that old revision for edit (oldid=12345&action=edit).
Once the updates are finished, though, there is no way to get a diff of what he/she changed since the last try. He/she will need to save the page first, and only then to get a diff.

So, I think it would be good to provide a new button [Show changes since this old revision] on the right side of the existing [Show changes], when editing an old version of a page.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:19 AM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Page-diffs, Design, good first task.
• bzimport set Reference to bz35067.
He7d3r created this task.Mar 8 2012, 12:44 PM
Anomie added a comment.Oct 26 2012, 1:54 AM
  • Bug 41307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
He7d3r added a comment.Oct 26 2012, 3:03 AM

This should be easy since the difference between the two features is exactly what is shown on gerrit change 30113:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/30113/1/includes/EditPage.php,unified

He7d3r added a comment.Mar 14 2013, 12:07 PM

Copying from bug 41307:

If a user open an old revision of a page in edit mode and then click on [Show
changes], it will be displayed a diff against the most recent version of the
page and not against the version he was editing (sometimes it is this diff
which the user wants).

Such a feature is available in [[User:Js/ajaxPreview#Extra_features]], and is
very useful.

See also bug 29674.

PiRSquared17 added a comment.Apr 21 2014, 3:56 PM

Doesn't "undo" give a diff?

He7d3r added a comment.Apr 22 2014, 3:37 PM

(In reply to PiRSquared17 from comment #4)

Doesn't "undo" give a diff?

If I go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Sandbox?action=edit&oldid=605309723
and change "Test 1" to "Test 3", there is no "undo" feature which I could use to get a diff (and the button "Show changes" will make a diff against the most recent version of the page, which is not what I want).

gerritbot added a comment.May 24 2014, 2:23 AM

Change 135165 had a related patch set uploaded by devunt:
Add "Show changes against previous revision" button

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/135165

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• Phabricator_maintenance moved this task from Doing to Backlog on the good first task board.Sep 24 2018, 9:45 AM
Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Aug 10 2019, 4:32 PM
Aklapper edited projects, added MediaWiki-Page-editing; removed MediaWiki-Page-diffs.

Unrelated to the History or Diff pages themselves but about a button when editing a page, hence removing tag.

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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/135165/ has been abandoned, hence removing Patch-For-Review.

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@devunt: Hi, I'm resetting the task assignee due to inactivity. Please feel free to reclaim this task if you plan to work on this - it would be welcome! Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Assignee_cleanup for more information - thanks!

matmarex mentioned this in T315716: Visual editor diff behavior is different from wikitext editor behavior when editing an old revision (diff to start revision vs latest revision).Aug 20 2022, 2:15 AM
Pppery removed a project: good first task.Aug 7 2024, 4:37 PM
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