Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo

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Thanks!

Thanks @Closed Limelike Curves for this wish. Do you anticipate this feature to live in the Source Editor, Visual Editor, or both?

To confirm, it sounds like you're looking for a better way to manage edit conflicts. What about the Help:Edit conflict is cumbersome for you? JWheeler-WMF (talk) 15:48, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

@JWheeler-WMF I don't think that's what they mean at all. There's an "undo" button in revision history unrelated to what editor one has; irrespective of the default editor, the user will be brought to the same screen.

The edit-conflict part was only brought up to have the paragraph-based edit conflict interface as an example of a possible interface. Aaron Liu (talk) 16:27, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

^Yes, that's it. I think the edit conflict interface is really good! I'd like to have a way to use it even if I don't have an edit conflict—just two different versions of the same article that have been published at different times. This way I can "partially revert" changes by picking which version I like on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis. Reusing the same interface should save a lot of work/development time. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 17:39, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

@JWheeler-WMF I just edited my request to hopefully be a bit clearer. Basically, I want diff pages to have an option for cherry-picking paragraphs or sections between multiple versions of an article, so I can get a better "mixed" version that has content from both. This gives me an alternative to reverting wholesale if I think only some changes by another user were problematic. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 18:17, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

How about this script

I've just found this request on enwiki. As "Edit conflict" works on a paragraph basis, maybe the (logic of the) script en:User:Nardog/DiffUndo is what you're looking for? pon_or (talk) 14:54, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

The description of the script sounds similar to what I'm looking for, though not quite; like you said, I want to take two previously-published versions and choose paragraphs from each, side-by-side. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 00:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

That's what it basically is, though you have to press undo and then show changes first. Aaron Liu (talk) 02:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

You don't have to click "Show changes", the diff is already shown when you click undo. Nardog (talk) 06:14, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

OK, I think I understand a bit better now. So, if I want to partially restore an older version, I need to:

1. Turn on the 2010 Wikitext editor under "Settings",
2. Go to the original version of the article,
3. Click "edit",
4. Click "Show changes",
5. Double-click any changes you don't want to undo.

I think this works! Thanks for writing such a great script @Nardog, I'll be sure to use it :)

Comments on where I think this could be improved:

1. Compared to being able to edit diffs directly by clicking a "cherry-pick" button, having to go through the series of steps I described above feels a bit clunky.
2. Double-clicking feels pretty weird since it's also used to highlight text.
3. Every time I delete a paragraph, the script sends me back to the top of the page for some reason, so I lose track of where I am.
4. Doesn't work visually—I have trouble reading everything with all the clutter (e.g. references).

If I could have my dream interface, it would be to start with something like w:User:BrandonXLF/CompareRevisions, but align all the paragraphs and sections side-by-side, so I can compare them. Then, for each pair of paragraphs, I could push a single button to indicate whether I want the version on the left or the right. When I'm done, I push an "I'm done" button at the bottom of the page, and everything gets put together into a new combined article. Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 18:25, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Any source editor that isn't the 2017 one would do well. Aaron Liu (talk) 19:02, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

It now uses buttons instead of double-clicking, not only because of what you point out (I too found myself double-clicking when I didn't mean to undo) but to make it work on touchscreens. The scrolling issue seemed to only occur when syntax highlighting is on, but I've added a workaround anyway. Nardog (talk) 04:58, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Is this for checkboxes next to each paragraph?

Is this requesting that next to every paragraph or element of a diff there are checkboxes which one can leave checked if they are to be undone? Similar to how it's at git merge conflicts? Prototyperspective (talk) 13:57, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, exactly that! —Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 04:03, 14 December 2024 (UTC)