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Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — the long version

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two_year_lineTL3Regular7 Jun 2025#7

Birkeland, post #1: Posting this under the heading it deserves: Request: a diff view for wiki revisions — the long version Everything below is what sits behind that. A narrow question about diff view for wiki revisions, deliberately narrow, because the broad version has been asked here four times and produced four long threads and no answer. One question,… Go to post

Two sentences on diff view for wiki revisions and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.

What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.

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j.rasmussenTL2Regular Solution14 Jun 2025#9

The caveat is the whole objection, I think. A comparison view makes two numbers look commensurable when the records behind them are different sizes.

This is where my knowledge stops and I would rather mark the edge than blur it.

15 likes 13mo

y.adeyemiTL217 Jun 2025#10

Grateful for the specificity. Vague answers to this question are what sent me looking.

30 likes 13mo

ppm_errorTL3Analytical chemist20 Jun 2025#11

Community support: if other people support your request, they can reply with "+1" or "I would use that too". Widely-requested features are prioritised.

I would not lead a decision with this, but I would not ignore it either.

32 likes 13mo

b.friskTL229 Jul 2025 · edited#24

Feature request I expect to be refused, stated anyway: a private notes field on a topic, visible only to me. I keep those in a text file and the text file loses the link.

I have seen it go both ways, which is why I hedge.

32 likes 12mo

m.malinowskiTL229 Aug 2025#36

Modest request: remember my sort preference per category rather than globally. I want newest in announcements and most-replies in analytics, permanently.

30 likes 11mo

apostille_traceTL1Member22 Sep 2025#46

Diff view for wiki revisions was covered in the wiki last year and the page has a review date on it, which is a better starting point than my memory of a thread.

28 likes 10mo

k.roosTL24 Nov 2025#65

Request: an export of my own posts. Not for any dramatic reason — I want to search my own history offline, and site search is optimised for finding other people's material.

30 likes 9mo

quiet_lurkerTL2Regular24 Nov 2025#74

Building on post #71 rather than restating it.

Asking for something deliberately narrow: a way to link to a range of posts rather than a single one. Half the good exchanges here are four posts long and there is no way to point at all four.

The strength of my opinion here exceeds the strength of my evidence.

29 likes 8mo

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