History of Revisions in a Wiki

Accessing a MediaWiki page's revision history depends on the skin used on that wiki.

If you are trying to access the revision history on Wikipedia, which uses the Vector Skin by default, you can do so in the following way.

On WikiTeq's Demo Wiki, we use Chameleon, and the revision history is collapsed.

MediaWiki Revision History Comparison

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

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

Revert to a Previous Version of a Wiki Page

You can also easily revert to a previous version of a wiki page. There are several ways to do this, but the most efficient way is the following.

1. Select the revision history you would like to revert to.
2. Compare the selected revisions.
3. If satisfied click revert.

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:

• ApprovedRevs
• Moderation

Check out the other articles on our blog that have information on MediaWiki, Wikibase, and various tutorials/help articles, along with a more in-depth article on tracking changes on a wiki.

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