I can see what I write, but how can I download the revisions?
January 6, 2012 7:49 AM Subscribe
I love watching how people write and revise (made possible by tools like stypi and etherpad-lite). What is the easiest way to programmatically download a readily-parseable dump of the specific revisions?
I am interested in quantitatively analyzing the revision history of documents to see if I can generate a mathematical summary of how people write (e.g., ratio of insertions to deletions, when they tend to delete, frequency of copy-pasting, etc). Etherpad clones/children such as stypi and etherpad-lite make it easy to playback people's writing process. Rather than watching and subjectively evaluating the playback, I want to download a readily-parseable dump of the incremental revisions. I suspect that this can accomplished by modifying the etherpad-lite source, but I'm pretty far down on the learning curve when it comes to node.js and server-side installations.
Does the hive-mind might have any recommendations for how to easily download the incremental revisions to an etherpad-like document? Cost isn't much of a consideration.
I am interested in quantitatively analyzing the revision history of documents to see if I can generate a mathematical summary of how people write (e.g., ratio of insertions to deletions, when they tend to delete, frequency of copy-pasting, etc). Etherpad clones/children such as stypi and etherpad-lite make it easy to playback people's writing process. Rather than watching and subjectively evaluating the playback, I want to download a readily-parseable dump of the incremental revisions. I suspect that this can accomplished by modifying the etherpad-lite source, but I'm pretty far down on the learning curve when it comes to node.js and server-side installations.
Does the hive-mind might have any recommendations for how to easily download the incremental revisions to an etherpad-like document? Cost isn't much of a consideration.
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