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A page history shows the order in which edits were made to any editable Wikipedia page, the difference between any two revisions, and a menu of special external tools. A page history is sometimes called revision history or edit history. You can view a page's history by clicking the "View history" tab at the top of the associated page (pictured ...
One can usually determine rapidly from the page history if an article is, or has been, the subject of an edit war. In an edit war, two users (or sometimes two groups of users) are editing alternately; if you "diff" between successive versions of one side's edits, the article is repeatedly restored to more or less the same state; and examination ...
The recent changes page is accessed from the Interaction Menu on Wikipedia's sidebar (displayed on the left side of the screen). It lists the most recent edits made to pages on Wikipedia. Using this page, you can monitor and review the latest contributions, to discover and correct mistakes and to spot and revert vandalism.
The editing history of an article and the list of edits to date can be looked up by any user, by clicking "HISTORY" at the top of the article page, which will list the history of edits to the article. Clicking on DIFF next to any edit will show the details of any changes made at that time, old text on the left, new text on the right.
Here's a grand tour of the page history for the Thomas Kean article in Figure 5-1: On the left, the first few columns—(cur), (last), and the radio button—let you tell Wikipedia which versions of the article you want to compare, which you'll learn exactly how to do in the section about seeing what changed. If you're not comparing versions ...
Editing most Wikipedia pages is simple. Wikipedia uses two interface methods: classic editing with the Source Editor through wikitext (wiki markup), and a new VisualEditor (VE). Wikitext editing using the Source Editor is chosen by clicking the Edit source tab at the top of a Wikipedia page (or on a section-edit link). This opens an editable ...
This is a fairly common mistake which is made when editors copy text from one article to another. If the editor is still active, they can be contacted to ask whence the copy came, or the text found by WikiBlame can be searched for in other Wikipedia articles to see if the long citation is available in another article. Fix this type of error:
Although changes are not systematically reviewed, Wikipedia's software provides tools allowing anyone to review changes made by others. Each article's History page links to each revision. [e] [70] On most articles, anyone can view the latest changes and undo others' revisions by clicking a link on the article's History page. Registered users ...