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Page history tools

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I've noticed page histories tend to get cluttered with minor edits. Has anyone made a keyframe viewer for edit histories? This would identify stable versions of the page that remained unchanged (apart from small edits) for an extended period of time.

  • Manually tagging stable page versions might also work. Is this supported by MediaWiki?
  • Another approach would be to develop a Git-style blame tool for Wikipedia. The standard edit history "blame" tool links Wikiblame and Blame - XTools are certainly useful, allowing text strings to be traced back to their corresponding "keyframe" edits, but don't support Git-style blame, where the aim is to understand the provenance of each part of the page.

Searching https://www.google.com/search?q=github+wikipedia+blame found a few more useful references:

More generally, to find out what's going on with Wikimedia community-driven tech initiatives, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech.

And in fact, as of May 2023, WWT is a fantastic resource, and seems to work properly on the vast majority of pages (it stops working 20% of the way through negative binomial distribution, but that's a very long article). It would be nice if it worked on Wikipedia meta-pages (MOS:MATH, Template:Math). Extending it to wikis for other languages was one of the top-voted proposals in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey, and is currently being worked on, but wiki meta-pages aren't covered by the current work.