Ability to view contributions, filter per path and/or author

[renoirb]

Ability to visualize contributions, and changes history on the wiki and on pages in particular.

1. On a page
2. By a user
3. On a page, by a user

Task summary

• Create a view where we can query GitHub API and list commits
• Ability to filter per wiki page path (e.g. path=content/css/properties/border-radius/index.md)
• Ability to filter per author. Has to support both migrated users (e.g. Dgash@docs.webplatform.org and GitHub users (e.g. renoirb).
• Setup redirect from former /wiki/Special:RecentChanges (example) to point to List edits
• Setup redirect from former /wiki/Special:Contributions/Username (example) to point to List edits made by author
• Setup redirect from former "page history" /w/index.php?title=css/properties/border-radius&action=history (example) to point to List edits made on a page

Links

• Prototype on JsFiddle, source article
• GitHub API commits
• Views:
  • List edits (a.k.a. Recent Changes) using API, using GitHub
  • List edits made on a page using API, using GitHub
  • List edits made by author migrated from MediaWiki using API, using GitHub
  • List edits made on a page by author migrated from MediaWiki using API, using GitHub
  • List edits made by author (after migration) using API, using GitHub

Proof of concept ScreenShot

The following is a snapshot of a client side JavaScript client proof of concept (ref: source article) that we could use to list contributions.