On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:46 AM, S Page <sp...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
> bjor...@wikimedia.org
> > wrote:
>
> >
> > I personally find the topic history page[4] to be horrendous, both ugly
> > and nearly unusable.
> >
> We're going to revise topic history.
>
>
> > Yes, I'm probably atypical in that I like reading wikitext diffs for
> > discussion pages.
>
> You can view the diff between revisions of a post, but editing posts is
> somewhat rare. Generating a diff of an entire topic with new posts,
> updates, hide operations, etc. seems challenging.
>
> As a second datapoint, I too am a "diff reader" to read discussions too.
It could be taken as an extra datapoint that wikitext discussions are
horrible, as well as a datapoint that mediawiki manages the horrible pretty
well for end users. YMMV.

-- Martijn


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