link to what? you can already open that particular version … can you elaborate further

chetankjain, you can open it, but you can’t provide to anyone link to diff between two versions. All you can for now is just saying something like “look diff between this time and that time”.

chetankjain wrote:

link to what? you can already open that particular version … can you elaborate further

checked in wikipedia, yes they provide such a link …
but how often would this be used?
maybe a lower priority request to the devnet team? marius?

chetankjain wrote:

checked in wikipedia, yes they provide such a link …
but how often would this be used?

Wolf P., wikipedia is big and mature project :) I think that it will be used at DevNet, but not so often.

The MediaWiki software has also the contributions of this user list. With its help you can check for spam, vandalism, etc.

Wolf P., you can look for wiki pages touched by user in his profile.

Denis, I didn’t introduce wp here, but yes I know – and use – the function in MediaWiki-based wikis. And: Yes, I saw the list of wiki pages touched in DevNet.

BTW: I’m in doubt if a contributions list is really a good thing for privacy reasons.

why would privacy be invaded? since this is a purely technical wiki? can you elaborate

For Wikipedia: analysing the contributions you can create profiles of the users interests.

For purely technical wikis: A timestamped list of contributions lets you track the user’s activities, estimate when they spend how much time in the DevNet etc. I think that this could become problematic sometimes.

Wolf P., don’t see any problems if someone will now when I spent time at DevNet. It also can be viewed by my comments at DevNet forum.

Wolf P. wrote:

For purely technical wikis: A timestamped list of contributions lets you track the user’s activities, estimate when they spend how much time in the DevNet etc. I think that this could become problematic sometimes.

i still don’t see any problem … are you concerned with something like: some manager does not want you to log into devnet site during work hours? but that sort of thing is now totally outdated.

Denis, maybe no problem for you ;)

chetankjain wrote:

but that sort of thing is now totally outdated.