After our post on revision history for non-wiki websites earlier today, we noticed another post, this time from Infodisiac.com talking about the mechanics of how revision history was stored for Wikimedia projects (like Wikipedia) as well as most Mediawiki wikis.
Because AboutUs utilizes a heavily modified Mediawiki installation as our base, our revision history works predominately the same as most Mediawiki wikis. However, we thought now was a good excuse to talk about how to use this feature of a wiki (and AboutUs in particular) to see what’s been changed on an article, and by who.
Using the History Page
On any AboutUs article, you can see the revision history (also known as edit history or page history) by clicking on the “History” option on the page.
The revision history consists of:
1. Numbered revisions in reverse chronological order (newest changes first)
2. A record of date and time of every edit. Clicking on the date/time show the full page as it was after that revision, as well as providing a link to a previous version of articles.
3. Who made the edits (with links to their PersonalPage, TalkPage and all their Contributions)
4. A summary of the edit (if one is provided)
In addition to these, the revision history for an article:
5. Allows you to select two versions of a page and see the changes between them by clicking on the radio buttons for two changes and then clicking the “Compare selected versions” button. This gives you a diff page that shows the differences between the pages.
6. You can also use the cur and last options to view the differences between that edit and the current version (curr) or that edit and the last/previous version (last).
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