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Suggestion: Please make section vertically taller

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Reallygreatoaktree (talkcontribs)

Its right now I think the vertical bars do not have enough room to show the potential difference in changes. For example you can just barley tell between something thats a minor grammatical change and something that has rewritten half the page. It would be useful if there was some option to expand the page.

Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

I'm really curious, but need a screenshot or example page to understand the problem better. As of now the graph is logarithmic and dynamically scales so that the biggest change takes up 100% of the available height, with all other changes scaled accordingly. It's mathematically not possible for a minor change to look identical to a rewrite. Not even when a page's history contains a change that replaced the entire page.

Reallygreatoaktree (talkcontribs)

Well I don't mean and didn't say it's impossible to tell the difference what I mean is that the difference between a minor change and a major change could be more visually noticeable when sifting through a large list of edits. So it would be nice but not required if it was possible to make the section taller by not using a logarithmic system and instead using a linear one.

Reallygreatoaktree (talkcontribs)

I hope that clarifies it I just wanted to see if there was any way to make it easier for editors to find potentially malicious or significant edits in the history. I have included a screen shot showing the issue https://imgur.com/SA0QKpF. The high bar to the right is the a major edit while the other edits are either template edits or other wise minor.

Thanks for the help,

Reallygreatoaktree

Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

I would love to understand better which page that is, on which wiki? How big are these changes according to the information shown in the popups?

The best theory I have at the moment is that what you describe as a "major" edit was removing and adding a similar amount of bytes, but the total size of the page didn't change much. The RevisionSlider bars are meant to show how much the size of a page changed, i.e. the same as the +/− in the watchlist.

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