MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook/Edit History

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Edit History

[edit] Edit History

To merge the edit history of two or more pages or to split up the edit history of single page into two or more separate pages you will need to use the Delete and Undelete tools.

Edit histories should generally be merged if pages in the main namespace copy contents from pages in the main namespace of a sister Wikimedia project in order to comply with the GFDL license. For similar reasons if a page in the main namespace is split into several pages such as from becoming big or due to reorginization it is generally a good idea to split the edit history among the new pages.

Some Wikimedia projects may include additional namespaces in which edit histories should be merged or split up.

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[edit] Merging

Merging the edit histories of two or more pages is easy. Follow these simply instructions to do it.

1. open the page you wish to merge the edit histories into and click the edit link.
2. open a window for each page whose edit history you plan to merge with step 1.
3. click on the move link of each page you opened in step 2.
4. enter into the "To new title" field box for each page, the page name from step 1 and confirm deletion of the existing page.
5. close all windows open in step 2 and in a open a copy of the page in step 1 in a new window.
6. click on the history link and then the view or restore link.
7. confirm you wish to restore edit histories.
8. go back to the page and click the edit link.
9. copy and paste the contents of the edit box in step 1 into the edit box in previous step.
10. enter "restored current version" into the summary box and click save page to restore back the current version.