Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Search/Blame tool

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Blame tool

Problem: When I see suspicious text on a page, I should be able to find its creator and first revision. Some version control systems have a tool for it. Now I have to check history manually.

Who would benefit: Curators.

Proposed solution:

More comments: It would be good also to find the last revision for a text found in the article's history.

Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: Dalka (talk) 10:53, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion

This already exists. MER-C (talk) 12:35, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- It does but it does not work very well :/ We actually removed the XTools version because it was even worse. If there is a rock-solid solution to this, it hasn't been implemented yet (to my knowledge). Either way I think this proposal is more fit for the "Search" category, so I am moving it there. Regards, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 19:33, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - WikiWho is probably a good starting point for this. The Wiki Ed / P&E Dashboard uses it to show which parts of an article were contributed by which editor, and although it's not perfect, it's been really, really useful. There are some failure modes based on how it tokenizes things, for text that gets transformed gradually at sub-word level, and it just doesn't give results for a some kinds of markup (including some refs, and tables, and other harder-to-parse syntax). But in practice, it's got excellent accuracy. It's also still being actively developed, and has been improving quite a bit in recent months.--Ragesoss (talk) 17:05, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is this essentially phab:T2639? --Vachovec1 (talk) 22:37, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Tim Landscheidt (talk) 19:25, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Strainu (talk) 23:16, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 07:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ijon (talk) 08:30, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jenks24 (talk) 09:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dvorapa (talk) 10:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support HHill (talk) 11:41, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 11:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oscar_. (talk) · @ 11:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jc86035 (talk) 15:26, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support YFdyh000 (talk) 15:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stryn (talk) 16:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support A proper blame like svn {blame,praise} and git annotate (rather than like current and past wikiblame) would be an awesome for curation. — Arkanosis ^✉ 17:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yiyi (talk) 19:05, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rcsprinter123 (talk) 20:16, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Gripweed (talk) 21:33, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Luchesar • T/C 21:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Simon Villeneuve 15:41, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
Support Ottawahitech (talk) 16:37, 29 November 2017 (UTC) Please ping me [reply]
Support —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 17:08, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ermahgerd9 (talk) 20:42, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support — putnik 01:11, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nocowardsoulismine (talk) 02:28, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Furfur (talk) 04:11, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support – would help root out vandalism sprees that went undetected until later. DMacks (talk) 04:39, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - yona B. (D) 08:37, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support This would be an absolute boon in tracking things like citation spamming. JzG (talk) 15:26, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 16:02, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nizil Shah (talk) 18:35, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Terra ❤ ^(talk) 07:14, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gnom (talk) Let's make Wikipedia green! 10:07, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 11:59, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support A better WikiBlame with fewer spurious results, yes please Noyster (talk) 20:06, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Winged Blades of Godric (talk) 16:33, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Will definitely be beneficial for all curators, and the project itself Kostas20142 (talk) 18:22, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Giraffedata (talk) 21:40, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice idea I agree Gryllida 01:07, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hell yes. The lack of this ability wastes probably thousands of volunteer man-hours per month on en.WP alone, manually digging through diffs. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 08:14, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Yes definitely useful. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:23, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Epìdosis 08:21, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is something I spend a lot of time on while performing anti-vandalism.-Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 17:34, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ca2james (talk) 03:52, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes please. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:45, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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