Mailing List Archive: PATCH "last modified on .. by user(talk)" and "revision as of .. by user(talk)"

PATCH "last modified on .. by user(talk)" and "revision as of .. by user(talk)"

Aug 21, 2004, 4:37 PM

Post #1 of 3 (3983 views)

Coming from UseMod wiki software, where this information is always
present, I would like to introduce these patches in the coming versions
of MediaWiki:

to show and link who edited last the article (or revision)
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(1) on every article's footer
"This page was last modified on .. (date) by userX(talk)"
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For this patch the page MediaWiki:lastmodified needs to be
modified, add $2 and/or $3 if you wish to display the user and usertalk
information and links:

page MediaWiki:lastmodified
1.3.1 Original: "This page was last modified $1."
1.3.1 TG Patch: "This page was last modified $1 by $2 ($3)."

(2) on each article's revision page
"Revision as of .. (date) by userX(talk)"
=========================================

For this patch the page MediaWiki:revisionasof needs to be
modified, add $2 and/or $3 if you wish to display the user and usertalk
information and links:

page MediaWiki:revsionasof
1.3.1 Original: "Revision as of $1"
1.3.1 TG Patch: "Revision as of $1 by $2 ($3)"

The patch is for the modules Skin.php and Article.php of version 1.3.1;
the patch is ready and will be published soon.

Tom

Re: PATCH "last modified on .. by user(talk)" and "revision as of .. by user(talk)" [ In reply to ]

timwi at gmx

Aug 22, 2004, 1:43 AM

Post #2 of 3 (3952 views)

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Thomas Gries wrote:

> to show and link who edited last the article (or revision)
> (1) on every article's footer

This is not sufficiently important to warrant putting on every article.
People wanting to know this only need to click "history"; people only
wanting to read the article shouldn't be presented with this kind of
secondary information.

Re: PATCH "last modified on .. by user(talk)" and "revision as of .. by user(talk)" [ In reply to ]

evan at wikitravel

Aug 22, 2004, 10:31 AM

Post #3 of 3 (3952 views)

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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:37:25AM +0200, Thomas Gries wrote:

> (1) on every article's footer
> "This page was last modified on .. (date) by userX(talk)"
> =========================================================

> page MediaWiki:lastmodified
> 1.3.1 Original: "This page was last modified $1."
> 1.3.1 TG Patch: "This page was last modified $1 by $2 ($3)."

Code for this is in 1.3.1 already. See Credits.php, and $wgMaxCredits.

~ESP