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This does not apply if a new page with the same name has been created after the deletion; in this case, the link will appear on the page's history. This produces: If the page has recently been deleted: the deletion report (who deleted it, when and why). If the page was deleted after 23 December 2004 (the date of the MediaWiki 1.4 upgrade), all ...
Clicking Restore all default settings will harmlessly load another page, which will then offer the button to reset all preferences in every tab to their default values. This includes a few items that are stored as a preference, but that aren't directly editable in Special:Preferences.
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 ...
The MediaWiki software sometimes enables editors to easily revert (undo) a single edit from the history of a page, without simultaneously undoing all constructive changes that have been made since. To do this, view the page history or the diff for the edit, then click on "undo" next to the edit in question. The software will attempt to create ...
That will bring you to a screen which shows the various now-deleted revisions. This is a page that only admins can see. Unless you click "undelete" under the Deletion log on this page, the deletion will remain in effect. Scroll down the page to where it says "File history". Click on the blue linked date and time for one of the File history ...
Every edit made to Wikipedia is recorded and (with rare exceptions) is publicly viewable in a page's history. To access it, click the "View history" tab at the top of the article. Page histories consist of rows, each representing a past revision of the page. Each line contains various elements with information or tools related to that revision:
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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.