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)