Re: [d@DCC] Are there "diff"s available for amendments?

From: "Joe McGuire" <tinfoil _-at-_ gmail.com>
To: "General Copyright Discussions (questions, organizing, etc)" <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:32:05 -0500
References: <6defe8840801241105p6a895fffs1cf18b493d1d8bd6@mail.gmail.com> <479A56DA.9070104@uottawa.ca>

I could see mediawiki being very adaptable to this. I'll try to revive
an old mediawiki install I have somewhere around here and trya couple
things out.

On Jan 25, 2008 4:38 PM, Andy Kaplan-Myrth <techlaw@uottawa.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Denver Gingerich wrote:
> > I was reading through Bill C-60 recently and found it very annoying to
> > have to look at the Copyright Act to provide context when I saw
> > phrases like "Paragraph 2.4(1)(a) of the Act is replaced by the
> > following:".
>
> Yes, it's annoying, but that's how Bills work. And they often make
> changes to more than one piece of legislation, so a single page showing
> one Act may not be the best way to show the changes once the Bill is passed.
>
> > While it is probably necessary to have this kind of
> > description for amendments, I find it much easier to read these sorts
> > of changes in a format like MediaWiki's difference viewer [1].
>
> What a great idea. I'd suggest it should be different from your usual
> wiki where the focus is on the page and you go look at the history to
> see the differences. This would be more of a legislation bug tracker.
>
> It would have a database of current legislation. The main page would be
> a list of Bills (past and present), so you could pick different Bills
> and see how the affected laws would change if those Bills were
> "committed", so to speak.
>
> And as Bills were passed, you could just commit the changes in the Bills
> on the site to keep the legislation database up to date so over time it
> would come to show both the history of past changes as well.
>
> I'm not aware of anything like this. Could a wiki or bug tracker be
> adapted to do this?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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