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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 ...
This page describes some of these tricks of the trade. The suggestions here apply mostly to substantive articles with a number of contributors. If the page history indicates that the page is entirely or almost entirely the work of one person, you are dealing with a situation more comparable to evaluating an article on someone's private web site.
Viewing the history of the English Wikipedia's Main Page is not straightforward. Although originally written directly in wikitext, since the late 2000s almost all of the text is transcluded from various templates , which are cascade protected ; the main exception to this is the welcome banner and portal list at the top of the page.
Figure 5-1 is a snapshot of the history page for the Wikipedia article on Thomas Kean. If you've never seen a history page before, it probably looks confusing. But each of its many elements has a simple purpose. Figure 5-1. Here's a typical page history. Only six versions (edits) are shown, but a history page normally lists the first 50.
This page is a co-ordination point for pages that were previously in the Wikipedia: namespace, but have become obsolete and archived. Regular articles are not archived here or elsewhere because their previous versions may be viewed in the history tab. Note these pages are preserved primarily for historical interest.
The oldest article for which there is no break in the history, either because of being changed into a redirect or a lack of surviving revisions, is Nupedia, which has an edit from 00:08, 17 January 2001 (UTC), after a history merge with the old title of "NuPedia" and imports from the Nostalgia Wikipedia and the August 2001 database dump.
Wiki markup quick reference (PDF download) For a full list of editing commands, see Help:Wikitext; For including parser functions, variables and behavior switches, see Help:Magic words; For a guide to displaying mathematical equations and formulas, see Help:Displaying a formula; For a guide to editing, see Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
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