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The older text is, the more it fades, until it fades into a readable gray.
If you have BuiltinThreading, you can apply the feature to WikiKM:ThreadMode text only.
Recent conversation is easily identifiable because it is bright. Old chatter fades into the nothingness.
Text from the last 3 hours practically sparkles. Text from the last day is lighter than pitch black. Text from the last week is a very dark grey. Text from the last 3 months is grey. Older text is a light grey, almost merging into the white background, but still readable.
You should be able to turn this on or off, defaulting to off. You don’t turn it on and off on a per-page basis- you carry on-or-off as a sort of global mode. Why? Because at times, all you are doing is looking at recent changes and following threads. You hop from page to page doing so. You wouldn’t want to have to keep turning it on and off.
You could apply Fading``Text to the RecentChanges page, for when you have SelfDestructingPages (IdeasToPlace #66). SelfDestructingPages are pages that are automatically deleted, a certain period after their last edit. You could use Fading``Text to show just how long it is until the page falls into oblivion.
A better idea may be to have a sort of “death list,” though, with most-recent to die at the top.
As far as I know, no wiki implements this.
| status | wiki engines |
|---|---|
| Implemented | - |
| Developing | - |
| Intend to Develop | - |
| Considering | - |
| Rejected | - |
However, a few wiki implement something that is a step in this direction.
At World Wide Wiki http://worldwidewiki.net/wiki/ (using Wakka Wiki engine), many people, rather than directly *deleting* some text, will mark it up with the ~strikethrough~ markup. That serves as a warning to the next person that this text will soon be deleted. If he wants to *preserve* that text, he deletes the ~strikethrough~ markup. If he agrees that text is useless, he deletes the marked text. That markup is sort of like “half-way faded”.
At Green Light Wiki http://greenlightwiki.com/testwiki (what engine does it use ?), the most recent change is marked with a “change bar” on the left side. That text is sort of like the “new, practically sparkles”.