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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jun 23, 2020 05:15 PM UTC:

Very nice!  I was considering attempting this, but using diffs instead of saving the entire revision (but with the final, and perhaps various intermediate versions, saved in full so that lots of diffs wouldn't need to be processed to display a page).  That might be something to still try, if the size of the revisions table is a concern.

It occurred to me that I could do this after I set it up for doing comparisons between revisions, but this would also make it more complicated. Hopefully, the ability to delete old revisions will keep it from growing too large. If needed, I can also add automatic garbage collection that keeps the size of the Revisions table down.

I can't see revision counts from any of the Edit links that I know about (but can in this New Submissions list), nor a link to the revisions.php script. 

You're going to see revision counts only for pages that actually have revisions. Most submissions do not have any, because they were submitted before revisions started being saved. When I just checked one of the latest submissions, it had a couple revisions listed in the Edit menu. Remember that you have to be signed in to see the Edit menu.

The editor-use Edit page has text concerning revisions, but the link doesn't work, and the author-use Edit page hasn't been changed recently.

Okay, I have now fixed that.

And a separate issue (for editors): does loading the Edit Index Information (for editors) page take a long time to load the inventor/author dropdowns for anyone else?  If so, I'd like to move those into a new script, so that categorization, primary/secondary links, etc. and approval can be done more quickly.

We have had a quick edit script for several years now, which dispenses with the long list of possible author and inventor ids. I used to use it back when I used a 2400 baud modem to get on the internet. Just use the link that says "quick edit" instead of the one that says "edit".


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