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Add "alert" icon to recently modified articles, indicating how long they've held their present state
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Author: jeroenvrp

Description:
At the bottom of an article you can find information about the
date and time of the last modification of that article.

My idea is to have somewhere at the top of the article an icon
or text with a warning when an article has recently been
changed. Example:

  • A red icon when the last modification was less than an hour

ago.

  • A orange icon when the last modification was between an hour

ago and one day ago.

No green icon, so no icon at all, when an article has been
updated longer than a day ago. Because green will than somehow
suggest everything is 100% correct on that page and that is
something we can't guarantee.

The reason for this enhancement is to inform our visitors to be
extra alert about the correctness of that article, because it
has been recently changed. Off course it doesn't matter when
the article is actually ok, allthough it has been modified
recently, because it doesn't says the article is bad, but it is
only an advise to our visitors to be extra alert.

Maybe it is a good idea to not count a bot-edit for the
warning.

Hopefully a lot of people find this a good idea. It will give
us even more credit I think :-)

Best regards,

Jeroenvrp ( http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg
gebruiker:Jeroenvrp )


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz4315

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:01 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.
bzimport set Reference to bz4315.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Seems too focused of a feature. Easily implemented with user javascript/gadgets.

jeroenvrp wrote:

You just proved yourself that you don't understand anything about this feature-request.

Anyhow it's not needed anymore because we now have 'flagged revisions'.