Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Welcome to Codidact Meta!

Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.

Post History

71%
+3 −0
Q&A Proposal: tool for user-requested import of a single question and its answers from SE

We don't care about /.../ edit history. I'm going to disagree here, actually. Edits can be substantial in their own right, introducing new content from users other than the original author of the...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

Answer
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Canina‭ · 2020-10-07T07:15:24Z (over 3 years ago)
> We don't care about /.../ edit history.

I'm going to disagree here, actually. Edits can be substantial in their own right, introducing new content from users other than the original author of the post. (The golden rule for edits Somewhere Else is to always preserve and respect author intent, but there have been occasions when this still meant pretty much rewriting the post from scratch.) While indeed this isn't attributed to each individual user in the current revision view of a post (which would get messy real fast), it *is* attributed in the post history to the user who contributed each piece, and that content is normally available only under an attribution-required license. (Some users do things like write in their profile "my contributions can be used under License X", but there's no standard way to indicate that the way there is on Codidact where each individual post has an explicit, specific license associated with it.)

For that reason, while we might not care about revision summaries or timestamps or the fact that users might have changed their display names since (the current one is probably good enough for them), to the extent that the information is available, **I think we *should* aim to preserve information about at least the edit sequence and which user made each edit.**