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author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
commit | f398ad035b973608d380c9939ea845d8e2a0cdc2 (patch) | |
tree | 1ba1a0c94e375ab8ed609eaa57a542c6b87de5a8 /doc/todo/mark_edit_as_trivial__44___identify__47__filter_on_trivial_changes.mdwn | |
parent | 958e5735c946263a111420fe47abe58782581e8c (diff) | |
parent | 6d213a0c739d5b34357b01a616f99197eeba6ad9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.ikiwiki.info
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diff --git a/doc/todo/mark_edit_as_trivial__44___identify__47__filter_on_trivial_changes.mdwn b/doc/todo/mark_edit_as_trivial__44___identify__47__filter_on_trivial_changes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2b2b0242e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/mark_edit_as_trivial__44___identify__47__filter_on_trivial_changes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +One feature of mediawiki which I quite like is the ability to mark a change as 'minor', or 'trivial'. This can then be used to filter the 'recentchanges' page, to only show substantial edits. + +The utility of this depends entirely on whether the editors use it properly. + +I currently use an inline on the front page of my personal homepage to show the most recent pages (by creation date) within a subsection of my site (a blog). Blog posts are rarely modified much after they are 'created' (or published - I bodge the creation time via meta when I publish a post. It might sit in draft form indefinitely), so this effectively shows only non-trivial changes. + +I would like to have a short list of the most recent modifications to the site on the front page. I therefore want to sort by modified time rather than creation time, but exclude edits that I self-identify as minor. I also only want to take a short number of items, the top 5, and display only their titles (which may be derived from filename, or set via meta again). + +I'm still thinking through how this might be achieved in an ikiwiki-suitable fashion, but I think I need a scheme to identify certain edits as trivial. This would have to work via web edits (easier: could add a check box to the edit form) and plain changes in the VCS (harder: scan for keywords in a commit message? in a VCS-agnostic fashion?) + +[[!tag wishlist]] |