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After careful consideration, the programme committee has decided not to accept the below submission at this time. Thank you to the author(s) for participating in the Wikimania 2013 programme submission, we hope to still see you at Wikimania this August.

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Submission no.
5069
Subject no.
T5
Title of the submission

Visualisation of the edits in an Article

Type of submission

Presentation

Author of the submission

Jeph Paul

Country of origin

India

Affiliation

Community member

E-mail address

jephpaul@gmail.com

Username

Jeph_paul

Personal homepage or blog

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits

Abstract

I want to talk about my IEG grant where I'm working on a gadget to make it easier to view the edits on a page .It will graphically show the diffs that are currently shown side by side when you compare the edits under the history tab .

Detailed proposal

My proposal Replay Edit has been selected for an IEG grant .The project tries to make it easier for a person to view and look at the edits that have been made to an article in a simple and quick way .It tries to do this by showing the edits happening like a video being played in your browser. I want to talk about the project and data visualization .

Track
  • Technology and Infrastructure
Length of presentation/talk
20 Minutes
Language of presentation/talk

English

Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?

Yes I will.

Slides or further information (optional)

To be added later

Special requests

None

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  1. Sbouterse (talk) 17:47, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Interested in the proposed visualization from a wiki perspective as well as for timelines more generally, e.g. of how our understanding of the solar system has changed through the "edits" by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Einstein and others. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  3. DarTar (talk) 22:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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