This is a feature that should be turned on by default for logged in users, and turned off by default for the public (non-logged in) visitors.
Being able to see directly on every page (at the top or bottom), when logged in, "Page last modified `$human_readable_date_or_relative_time` by `$last_user_who_touched_this`", so that you can always have (as a reader or collaborator) an indication of the "freshness" of a page, and if there are changes since the last time you came to visit it.
This is _especially_ useful on complex wikis with lots of contents, sometimes days old, sometimes weeks, months or years old, and you never know what is fresh vs stale at a glance, and it's a chore to be clicking "History" and inspecting the history for each and every page, and to do that multiple times per week/month even for pages that you already saw (because what tells me the page hasn't changed since then?).
We lead busy and forgetful lives, and Tiki should be humanized software that welcomes me back "where I left off", making it easier for people to catch up on what matters (and ignore what doesn't, or at least not create " shitwork"). It would be especially relevant to part-time team members in any organization.
Google Documents does this (it's a surprisingly recent addition, and I love it), it offers to "See what's changed" since the last visit to a document. This is how it looks & feels like in Google Documents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTdb5sBsEu8
The text string for this has various variants depending on what you want to say in the string, because you want the date/timestamp to be human-readable, so instead of always showing a full ISO 8601 date+time stamp, you would show, for example:
The whole string could be hyperlinked and underlined like Google Docs does, to indicate that it is clickable to reveal the history comparison, or it could have some sort of 🕒 emoji/icon that is the clickable part.
The string could be auto-updated (via javascript?) every minute so that it remains accurate no matter how long the tab/page has been open.
Ideally it should trigger change notifications (like GitHub does, or used to do) if the page has been modified while the user is reading it / while the page is open; i.e. "This page has been modified by <i>$user</i> 9 minutes ago. <u>Refresh</u> this page to see the changes."
This feature has multiple parts/phases of implementation: