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Diff navigation links are confusing for diffs between two different pages
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Author: gangleri

Description:
Hallo!
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Val_warning&diff=7555&oldid=1949
is a diff between revisions of *two* pages because oldis is not *949* but *1949*.

This (diffs between two different pages) is a very interesting feature I was
about to issue a feature request.

However as the diff behaves now the only indication is in the page title:
*MediaWiki:Val view version, MediaWiki:Val warning*

I would suggest that links to both titles should be above the revisions.
I could not understand how "← Previous diff" and "Next diff →" would behave
(what they would generate.
A more clear indication that this is a diff between *two* pages would be usefull
too.
The error description at a diff with a deleted page is OK.

Compare with screen dump at
http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Image:Diffs_between_two_different_pages_01.jpg

Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

Version: 1.13.x
Severity: minor
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1&oldid=12345

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bz2455

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:32 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Page-diffs.
• bzimport set Reference to bz2455.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jun 19 2005, 11:01 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Dec 15 2005, 6:02 PM

gangleri wrote:

screen dump for bug 02455

The original url to the image is disclosed.

Attached:

diffs_between_two_different_pages_01.jpg (312×864 px, 50 KB)

• bzimport added a comment.Dec 15 2005, 10:59 PM

gangleri wrote:

Hallo!

Please read first bug 3957
restructure the code to evaluate ?title=foo&oldid=nnnn ; allow ?oldid=nnnn
without title

http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Val_warning&diff=7555&oldid=1949
compares oldid 7555 and 1949 (belonging to *different* titles) and generates the
difference between these.

http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Detelion_messages_testpage&diff=7556&oldid=1949
Revision as of 19:53, 25 April 2005
is http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=User_talk:WikiSysop&oldid=1949
← Previous diff
is
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Detelion_messages_testpage&diff=prev&oldid=1949
Here the titles *differ*

here a testcase with the deleted oldid=8682
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Val_warning&diff=8682&oldid=1949

http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=missspellled_title&diff=7555&oldid=1949
shows has also a mismatch in the titles

If "title=foo" is removed
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?diff=7555&oldid=1949
will show
← Previous diff
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=1949
Next diff →
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=next&oldid=7555
Here Main_Page is used as title

At http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?&diff=7556&oldid=1949
"Current revision" is refered without an oldid and the link
to http://test.leuksman.com/view/Main_Page has *nothing* to do with the diff.

*request*

  • Please allow to make diffs between oldid's from two titles also in the future.

This is a very usefull featrure.

  • Some links need minor fix. It should be checked if the title mentioned in the

url is the "owner" of the oldid. This is not the case at
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Detelion_messages_testpage&diff=7556&oldid=1949

  • add a MediaWiki message to notify if "title" is not the owner of any of the

verions

I could not comment this one:
http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=Detelion_messages_testpage&diff=prev&oldid=1949

best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

• brion added a comment.Apr 27 2008, 12:05 AM

Changed example URL to one on Wikipedia which is functional.

liangent added a comment.Dec 1 2012, 5:49 PM

Things are almost fixed now except that "Article" "Talk" "Read" "Edit" ... links are only for one article.

Better to show it as a invocation of Special:ComparePages?

matmarex closed this task as Resolved.Aug 19 2022, 11:43 PM
matmarex subscribed.

These days the links are no longer shown when comparing two pages. I don't know when this was fixed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1&oldid=12345

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