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A page history shows the sequence of edits 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 right).
The Main Page, known as HomePage from 15 January 2001 to 25 January 2002, [a] has been the dominant page on Wikipedia since its inception. The first page to be created, on any given day it is by far the most viewed page on the website, with more than 23 million daily views as of 2016. Viewing the history of the English Wikipedia's Main Page is ...
His 284 league goals remains a club record and, by 1925, he was the highest-scoring player in the history of the Scottish League. In 1925, Ferguson moved to Cardiff City F.C. ; he was the club's top goalscorer for four consecutive seasons.
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.
Oldest page that was created in the Wikipedia namespace and not moved from mainspace: , first recorded edit 27 January 2002 but probably created the day before [aj] Wikipedia talk: Contents/CategorySchemesTalk on 27 January 2001 [ak] [al] File: Tetris-branch.png [am] on 18:48:31, 26 January 2002 [an] [ao]
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.
For each Wikipedia article, past versions are accessible through the "View history" link at the top of the page. The full version history of all Wikipedia articles is also available for download as data dumps , in the form of compressed XML files.
When viewing page information, the wiki software can show additional custom text at the start and end of the page. The top of the information page (before the first section for "Basic information") comes from MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header. It is blank by default, but individual wikis can add content here.