History of Revisions of a Wiki Page

MediaWiki stores each and every revision of any page in the database. Looking at page history one can see who did what, and when.

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There are tools for revisions comparison in the page history view:

Example of history of revisions on MediaWiki

You can: 
  • open the page at any revision
  • compare revisions
  • undo latest changes
  • revert edits by a given contributor
  • revert to any arbitrary past revision
  • see other contributions by the same author
  • leave a message on the author's user talk page
  • block vandals 

Wiki Page Moderation

Revision based approach for storing MediaWiki content makes it possible to keep unmoderated / unapproved content unavailable for public viewing. There is a number of content moderation workflows provided by the extensions to match different use cases:

Check out the other articles on our blog that have information on MediaWiki, Wikibase, and various tutorials/help articles. 

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