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Phriction change diff or diffstat
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Description

When someone edits a wiki page, Phabricator currently sends emails with this content:

USER edited the document content.

DOCUMENT DIFF
  https://.../phriction/diff/1/?l=1&r=2

DOCUMENT DETAIL
  https://.../w/

This is usually not enough for the user to decide whether the change is interesting enough, whether they should click on the link or not. Both the edit-note as well as the actual changes are missing in this email. Thus this kind of email is regarded by users as effectively spam: It comes in large quantities and contains almost no information.

For pages being created, however, Phabricator emails contain this information:

USER created this document.

DOCUMENT CONTENT
  ...

DOCUMENT DETAIL
  https://.../w/

It would be great if the email could include the edit-note as well as the actual diff, along with a link to the diff on the webpage, so one could see immediately what the change was about. Or at least include a diffstat, so one could destinguish a small from a big change.